After the darkness

As the pale blue quartz second hand ticked its final beat, the sun rose as usual, proving the doomsday prophecy inscribed on the stone false. Cheers erupted like a riot of flowers, but when night fell, the sun remained silent for thirteen days. ...After the night came torrential rains, scorching heat, bitter winters, insect plagues—a series of natural disasters lost to history. After the night came an unknown and terrifying black tide, ferocious evolving beasts, and a collapsing order that wrote the prologue to evolution. Psychic evolution, secret martial arts combat, bloodline breakthroughs...the law of the jungle, where the strong prey on the weak, became tangible. The cowardly exerted their power on the weak, while the strong explored the mysteries of life. ————Lin Jue, carrying a palm-sized forest that could materialize his innate abilities, arrived in this world in a daze