[The beginning of Volume 2 will follow Ash for a few chapters.... then everyone else will be roped in. Character images are still on the way as well.]
For the past fifty years, the Haven had not known a single sound.
Not the rustle of silk, not the whisper of breath, not even the quiet thud of a heartbeat. Outside the Haven, only five years had bled away beneath real stars.
While inside, time had become like clay in their hands.
Most of the others had needed weeks—some months—to settle their minds, before locking themselves into cultivation.
Ash however, had not wasted a heartbeat.
After finding out that he'd been living essentially under a fake sky, he was motivated to see the true world of cultivation.... So, that's what he did, dove deep into cultivation....
