Return...

The Mortal Plane shouldn't have felt so good. It was a place Immortals and beyond saw as degenerate and backwater. What good was a place where there was only Mortal Qi? To those who had already transcended beyond those limits, it should have felt like breathing in foul or contagious air. 

But for some reason, Ryu felt the exact opposite of this. In fact, the air was so clean and refreshing that he felt his whole body relax. 

Ryu had just spent the last year in a perpetual state of pain. Just hours ago, that pain had been completely alleviated and he thought he had already reached peak levels of comfort. But, the instant he stepped onto the Higher Mortal Plane, it was like all the pressure within him had been released at once.