"They're here, they're here~"
"Quick, brothers, get those instruments going."
"And you lot, I'm paying each of you 1 point of negative experience. You're succubi, so get dancing."
"The newly ascended deity is coming..."
The instant Zhou Heng completed his leap from level 10000 to level 10001, a loud, brazen voice rang out beside his ears.
Then the black aura enveloping Zhou Heng dispersed. He found himself standing on a pitch-black platform. Directly ahead stood a skeleton wreathed in streaming golden light. To either side were a group of scantily clad, white-skinned elves and winged witches dancing seductively on a gray carpet.
Zhou Heng was in no hurry to speak. He simply watched everything calmly.
"Hahaha, a brother of humankind! Welcome to the Endless Abyss family."
"I hear human deities are all quick thinkers with sky-high intelligence."
"With you joining us, brother, the Whispering Graveyard is sure to grow even stronger."
Seeing Zhou Heng step down from the Abyss Ascension Platform, the skeleton wreathed in streaming golden light approached and tried to hug him, his skeletal jaws clacking open and shut.
But Zhou Heng did not move. He merely looked around, somewhat puzzled by the other's behavior.
Seemingly noticing the confusion in Zhou Heng's eyes, the skeleton wreathed in streaming golden light burst out laughing.
"Sorry, sorry. I'm a skeleton, and you're a human, brother. Not hugging is the right thing to do."
"That was presumptuous of me."
"Let me introduce myself. Cui Gu, skeleton race, level 24101. And you, brother?"
Cui Gu, wreathed in streaming golden light, acted extremely friendly, without any of the deathly silence, slaughter, or terror Zhou Heng had imagined he would find in the Abyss.
But Zhou Heng could not yet tell whether this was an act.
"Zhou Heng, humankind, level... just transcended?" Zhou Heng