There was only absolute darkness. Not only could his eyes see nothing, even his heart was a mass of darkness.
Yet, in this sunless place, Zhang Xiaohua felt strangely safe. It was as though the darkness around him was filled with something exceedingly familiar, yet utterly alien. Thinking carefully, he realized it was the Heavenly Dao he had sensed when he had become one with heaven and man outside Songning Town and Pingyang City.
Zhang Xiaohua wanted to move his hand, but felt nothing. He wanted to blink, but felt nothing. It seemed that he existed as nothing more than consciousness, without any form at all.
Who knew how long had passed? An instant, perhaps ten thousand years, perhaps even longer. Zhang Xiaohua seemed to have lost all sense of time. At some point, distant yet perhaps near, a sudden change occurred. First came ceaseless tremors, sending out an inscrutable ripple that instantly spread through the entire space. That point changed from endless darkness to transparency, then to red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and finally purple. Every color gave rise to a ripple that spread through the entire space. The final purple lasted the longest, and its ripples were the most violent. The whole space was even filled with the same mysterious purple Qi that had been inside the spherical formation.
Zhang Xiaohua was utterly shocked. What was this? What was he seeing?
Then an even more incomprehensible change appeared.
After the purple, the entire space stopped trembling. It was silent for only an instant before all the colors appeared at that point, while the entire space filled with seven kinds of ripples. Then that point suddenly flashed, and a thread of white light appeared from within it. In an instant, the white light filled the entire space, and