Mu You's consciousness lay dormant at the bottom of the lake, surrounded by darkness, silence, and unfathomable depths, unable to see anything.
In his daze, Mu You only remembered that he seemed to have met someone at the bottom of the lake, someone who had talked endlessly to him.
His intuition told him it had been important, but he could not remember a single thing they had said.
Now he could not move or wake up, or even open his eyes. His consciousness could only remain submerged beneath the icy lake water, muddled and half asleep.
Everything around him was dark yet boundless, as though he were in an open universe without light.
After an unknown length of time, a burst of colorful light suddenly erupted in the darkness, like fireworks illuminating the once boundless, silent black space.
Amid the overlapping fusion of shimmering light and darkness, Mu You seemed to see a newborn planet taking shape within a chaotic nebula.
The rotating matter gradually formed a disk, like a gigantic merry-go-round. Gas and dust gathered under gravity, forming denser regions that tangled, tore at, devoured, and solidified with one another.
Landforms began to solidify on the planet's surface: mountains, canyons, plains, and oceans... Suns rose and moons set, spring passed and winter came, life emerged and all things evolved. The colorless world gradually gained color, and the forms of life grew from simple outlines into complex, varied shapes...
Countless images of the planet flashed wildly before Mu You's eyes at incredible speed.
Mu You felt as though he had become a speck of dust, ejected in a stellar flare, enveloped by countless particles of interstellar dust, then hurled into space by a collision before falling into a vast ocean.
Then he became an endlessly reincarnating cell, drifting through nature's