"Wait, what the fuck am I doing lying there?!" Bai Ye froze.
In the black mist pierced by golden light, someone who looked exactly like him lay perfectly still.
His eyes were shut and his skin was pale, like a corpse sleeping in the cold depths of the universe.
An invisible layer of dimension seemed to separate him from the corpse. Though his eyes saw himself, his senses perceived a form larger than a galaxy, impossible to take in as a whole.
Bai Ye's head suddenly began to ache. As he tried to see his own corpse clearly, his once-active consciousness plunged into frenzied chaos.
Boom-!
Vast amounts of complex, chaotic information flooded his consciousness. He saw time snap like rotting threads, cause and effect reverse, creation and destruction occur simultaneously. All manner of impossible paradoxes played out in turn before finally merging into one, becoming the corpse itself.
The corpse seemed to be the "balance" that held everything together, the beginning of all things and their ultimate end.
"Fuck! Time, resume!"
In the instant before his consciousness collapsed, Bai Ye released Time Stop, and the golden light shining into the Abyss immediately vanished.
The black mist churned endlessly. Wisps of it, like billions of tiny, winding snakes, crawled over "Bai Ye's" body bit by bit until they covered him completely.
Only then did that indescribable influence dissipate.
Bai Ye took a long time to recover before his consciousness gradually cleared.
He had a rough idea of what he had seen.
A god.
He did not know whether that was truly himself, but there was no doubt that it was a god-a sleeping god.
Looking directly at Him felt somewhat like looking directly at the Calamity Eye back then, only far more intense. Even with a dimension separating them, His