(AN: I made a mistake, because of a friend of mine in discord rushing me for lower realm arc, I forget that there's supposed to be a Faction War Arc first by the end of the year, and the lower realm arc starts five years later. But since this arc already started, I will be switching them)
Tang Lin coughed violently beside a wide, misty lake, hacking up mouthfuls of clear lake water onto the muddy reeds as his entire body shivered, drenched from head to toe.
His sodden student robes clung heavily to his skin, dripping water into the gravel below.
Earlier, when the spatial fabric above the barren plains violently tore apart, the chaotic dimensional currents had pulled him through the void and sent him careening straight down from the clouds like a lead weight, crashing hard into the center of this massive lake.
The violent impact had knocked the wind clean out of his chest, forcing him to paddle desperately through the freezing depths just to drag himself onto the rocky shoreline.
