The World Above

”Above? There is a world above?!” Xu Piao exclaimed with sheer disbelief shining from his eyes. His breathing had turned ragged, and his entire body stiffened in shock.

On the one side, this young man wished for nothing more than a different world, but in spite of that, deep inside himself was a voice of reason. It told him that if there truly were a world above then he would have known about it by now. Everyone would have known about it.

“Above,” Hui Yue stated calmly. “Can you not see the stone ceiling on your caves? Above those ceilings is ground filled with lush grass, tall mountains, vast oceans, and endless skies. That is the world where we came from.”