Xu Huo was immersed in a vast black ocean.
He didn't know when he woke up, or if he ever truly awoke. He just found himself submerged in dim water from the moment he regained consciousness. Tools, instruments, and characteristics were unusable, the library couldn't be summoned, and he was completely unable to sense spatial rays or time force. He could only see a faint light seemingly shining from above his head.
Everything around was pitch black, and being underwater, he couldn't breathe. Instinctively, he desperately swam upwards, but the water's surface, which seemed just a few meters away, always remained out of reach. So he repeatedly drowned during his ascent, and each time he awoke from drowning, the distance to the water's surface seemed to have increased.
