What Is All This~

Lin Hai sat cross-legged on the bed, his whole body sinking into a brief stupor and confusion.

"This... this is over?" he murmured to himself instinctively. "What happened to all my Life Force? How did it turn into this little thing?"

What lay before him completely exceeded his expectations. The familiar, vast Life Energy had vanished, replaced by this energy core that gave off an aura both familiar and strange.

He steadied himself and forced himself to calm down.

After carefully sensing his physical condition, he found that aside from the burning pain in his meridians caused by the earlier energy clash and explosion, which had not fully faded, and a slight weakness as though his body had been hollowed out, there seemed to be no other discomfort.

This energy core also seemed to be behaving itself, resting there without showing any abnormalities.

"Since it was transformed from my original energy, and it seems fairly stable for now..." Lin Hai pondered. "I can't just keep staring at it. I need to figure out what exactly it is."

He cautiously separated a thread of consciousness, like extending an invisible finger, and gently, tentatively touched the sphere of energy.

The instant his consciousness came into contact with the energy—

Boom!!!

A vast, chaotic torrent filled with countless fragments of information surged into Lin Hai's mind in an instant, like a burst river!

Most of this stream of information carried an icy, deathly, final meaning. It was the remnant of Death Force, containing part of an understanding of the concept of "death," as well as scattered fragments of information about that dimensional demon god and the dimension it belonged to.

At the same time, the information stream was mixed with Lin Hai's own insights into "life"—vitality, growth, healing, resilience...

Life and death, two