From the Valleys

"Uwah~!" Jin woke up violently on the floor and realised he was not in that cultivation dream state that he was in. But instead of sludge pool which Jin should have been immersed in upon waking up, he found that the black sludge was floating above him in a more condensed form like a cloud hovering at his ceiling.

Jin quickly absorbed all that sludge into his storage ring and decided to not give up. There was obviously something Ming wished to hide actively from Jin, but at the same time, his grandfather seems to not be thrilled to let him take that particular information.

"So much for being an open book! What lies! Anyways, it's only 4am. I think I can force myself to sleep again." Jin said to himself as he went into a sitting stance which allowed him to mediate and subsequently absorbed himself into the cultivation dream state. True enough, the moment Jin opened his eyes, he returned exactly to the point he got violently awoken.

In the middle of falling.