Qianye walked to the entrance of the cave and gazed out.

Night had fallen outside and there wasn’t a sound to be heard. Be it the nearby forest or the distant lake and rocky beach, everything was so quiet that it felt like they had been sealed in ice. He couldn’t hear anything else apart from the howling wind—the roaring beasts and buzzing insects from just now had been drowned out by the stillness of the night. If one were to remove the sound of the wind, the entire world be deathly silent.

Qianye shivered from an inexplicable sense of apprehension. That was the innate fear of a minuscule life form toward this massive world.

As a man of firm willpower, however, he quickly curbed the fear after realizing it. With the sense of apprehension gone, Qianye discovered a certain problem. The temperature was actually within range of an ordinary winter, a dozen or so degrees below freezing point. This chill was negligible to an expert like him, so why would he shiver?

Qianye scanned his own body while observing the world outside and unexpectedly found that the beating of his blood core was slowing...