Su He curled up in the Star Core Cave, feeling his consciousness floating ethereally, drifting without direction.
It was like being submerged in the ocean, sinking.
He felt himself floating and drifting, accompanied by incessant tiger roars, as if reversing the flow of time. His consciousness was continually pulled.
He didn't know how long it had been until he finally knew nothing...
...
An endless stretch of forest and snowfields extended boundlessly.
A half-grown tiger cub frantically fled across the snowfield, with dozens of wild wolves howling in pursuit behind him.
The wolves still had remnants of torn tiger flesh and blood at their mouths.
The cub's eyes were filled with terror.
Just half a day earlier, he was out hunting with his mother when they accidentally entered a cave. Then, he smelled an enticing scent, which was milk-like fluid condensed on a stalagmite.
Somehow, that fluid ended up in his mouth.
