The room was silent
For days the yue zihan sat cross legged in the springs water bubble with in the bubble it shimmered with faint ,grey luminescence like that of the cave he had been pulled into. At the moment his breath aligned with the pulse of the mist, the air spit
It wasn't sound, more like an existence itself tearing open a single eye. From the fixture the mist poured out and merged with the bubble it surrounded him . It was not energy ,not air, not light – it was everything and nothing at the same time a storm made from the vary fragment of creation .
His body grew slowly to that of a ten year old boy during this whole period.
The first wisp of the mist entered his nose
Instantly his veins screamed
Hot and cold at once, it raced through his meridians at once like molten ice every element in his body rebelled. His inner qi tried to burn it away or push it away but the qi devoured his qi turning into something formless and wild
His heartbeat lost rhythm
His soul trembled, struggling like as though it was being rewritten. In his mind countless visions bloomed - stars collapsing ,beast howling in the void, mountain rising from waves of fire. He saw his own body shatter into dust and reform again thousands of times until even pain was meaningless .
Then came the whisper
" you can forge order from me"
It wasn't a voice, it was a vibration from power itself pressing against his consciousness. The faint boundary between " self" and " world" began to blur. The pool around him turned black.
In that instance, He understood this was chaotic qi . Chaotic qi was alive, ancient, indifferent. To hold it was to wrestle with the heartbeat creation itself.
He forced his will to become the axis, drawing his soul tight like a blade.
The wind current slammed against him – and yielded just slightly
The mist seeped into his dantian condensing into a trembling sphere of grey light
Pain receded. Silence returned
But inside him now, something pulsed a fragment of the primordial sea, waiting, watching.
It came to his mind he had acquired the primordial chaos body from the cave in the fixture.
The first step of primordial chaos body had begun. What he had gained was not power but permission to exist with in chaos without dissolving.