Walker Of The Worlds

In space, millions of kilometers away from the world Lin Mu lived in, a grey orb of light was traveling at a great speed. It was as if it was fading in and out from reality itself, passing through obstacles, like asteroids, as if they were air.

After an unknown amount of time, it approached a blue planet; eventually falling into its atmosphere. The ground was becoming closer and closer, small continents expanded to a vast length, mountains rose to a great height. In the end, the grey orb collided with an insignificant tree; somehow only shaking it entirely. The orb then faded away, leaving behind a rusty grey ring embedded halfway through the trunk.

In his sleep, Lin Mu found himself in a dark place. He could not see anything at all. Strangely, he could feel his arms and legs, even touch them, but he still could not see them.

"Where am I? Is this a dream? I've never had a dream like this ever before."

He walked around in the darkness for what could be a few minutes or possibly days; having no method to measure the time. Eventually, he woke up because of a sharp pain at the top of his head. Looking around, he found himself lying below a familiar apple tree, where a small apple had fallen beside him. The sky was slowly getting brighter, and the sun hidden below the horizon had not risen yet.

"Huh, looks like this apple fell on my head and woke me up. That's strange though, this apple is still unripe; why did it fall?"

Standing up, Lin Mu stretched his arms and looked up at the sky, estimating that it's likely around 5am. He went up to the small stream to drink some water and quenched his thirst. After quenching his thirst, he felt his stomach groan with hunger.

as I don't have any money left, the guards took away the last of which I had. Guess I'll head back to the tree

to eat. Spotting a few with his eyes, he began

Getting closer to inspect what it was, he found a curved rusty metallic piece stuck to the bark. He tried pulling it out but it seemed

rusty grey ring like one could find in a flea market. The ring had

seen this before here on the tree. Did someone put it there? I may as well keep it, maybe I can sell it in the

followed by a warmth spreading from the ring to all over his body. As the warmth spread, Lin Mu felt energized and every cell in his body filled with strength. The process

that? I feel stronger, much more than ever before. Did I just break through to the 3rd stage of the body tempering

two fists. He put down the rock, and

think this would be a good idea to test out my strength? But

that it looked the same as before; a rusty grey colour except that

got some dried twigs and branches to cook the apples, knowing that eating them straight as they are, even if they