Somewhere in an unknown space a candle light was floating in the air, flickering. If one went closer they could see that this candle light was a soul, and it was the soul of Chen Mu.
Chen Mu in the form of a soul now was floating in the air of this gray space. The space seemed endless, there was no ground but one could imagine there was one and stand on it, and the same for the sky; there was no sky or air but there could be if one imagined it.
The light in the surroundings was chaotic, at one moment it would be so dark as if there was nothing there, just void. And in the next moment it would be extremely bright, a blinding white light would occur.
The gray space had a fain tinge of purple in it. The gray space also seemed viscous and impenetrable, as if it was a liquid but a solid as well. If one reached out they wouldn't know if they would he grabbing onto the hardest but smoothest granite or the softest but thickest water.
Chen Mu floated there in a daze, surprised and trying to understand where he just appeared. All he remembers is that after he died he just appeared in this endless gray space. The first thing he tested in this space was moving his body, starting with moving his fingers, then arm, then proceeding to walk/float In the direction infront of him.
He found that he could move freely but as he moved he would become extremely tired and would need to rest for a bit by using that meditation method before he died. Traveling seemed pointless to him as he never felt like he made any headway anywhere in this endless space since there was no concept of distance or references, it was all being perceived in this space by thought and imagination.
Chen Mu found that when he got tired and meditated, his flickering soul that seemed it would go out by a soft wind started burning stronger and stronger. After meditating a thousand times for rest his soul stopped flickering and emitted light equivalent to a stove fire. After ten thousand times his soul was equal to the burning of a campfire in the dead of night. After meditating 100 thousand times his souls light was like a large bonfire only celebrated for special occasions.
Chen Mu kept cultivating this meditation method for the soul for an unknown amount of time, an amount that felt equal to or even longer than Chen Mu's alive life. After this amount of meditation he reached 1 billion times and his soul seemed like the full moon in the night sky, outshining all the stars.
Once Chen Mu reached this point his soul that was still resembling the old looking Chen Mu transformed in a child, and this child was naturally Chen Mu. Chen Mu never noticed any of these changes as he had no way to look at himself nor did the idea pop into his mind.
Once Chen Mu's soul got to this level, the flame transformed into a gray chaotic color that seemed like it was the same as the gray space he was currently in. This changed in Chen Mu's soul spurred a change around him, now as Chen Mu traveled in the space he never got tired as if the space around him now was just air and didn't resist him.
Chen Mu kept traveling aimlessly with no goal in mind except to just 'travel'. Chen Mu would still get tired so he meditated when he needed to. After Chen Mu's change in soul he felt like he transcended some kind of limit or barrier and had made a brand new meditation art. The new art was able to help him recover his fatigue and energy twice as fast with half the effort. The way it worked was that he would 'grab' on the space around him and pinch off little pieces and then grind it up into a powder to be breathed in, then in his mind he would use it to purify his thoughts and soul.
Chen Mu kept up this practice and did it a billion more times till his soul's flame was as bright as a shooting star. At this level Chen mu's child looking soul reverted all the way to a baby.
On this day Chen Mu realized something was different as he couldn't move his 'body' since he was in the form of a baby. After that realization a phenomenon in this gray space happened, the gray space split apart infront of him, the black and white light split as well, and the purple tinge in the space retreated. From the split in this space an oval shaped crack appeared, in the crack an endless blinding light appeared, if one could look past the light they could feel and tell an endless blackness was behind it.
This light started approaching Chen Mu's baby form at an unpercievable speed that seemed like it teleported in front of Chen Mu. Once it appeared in front of Chen Mu it broke into what seemed like infinite small lights to him. Chen Mu again in a long time was shocked as he couldn't comprehend his current situation.
After the light broke apart it started to swarm around Chen Mu like a galaxy. It then in an instant fused into his soul and disappearing entirely. This course of action shocked Chen Mu once again.
Then in Chen Mu's mind he hears [Do you want to accept the Growing increase system]?
Chen Mu was baffled, confused, and shocked, until he then had a moment of understanding where he replied "Yes!"
After that Chen Mu's baby soul body disappeared and leaving this gray space desolate once again. The phenomenon of the light splitting the gray space apart seemed like it never happened as everything is back to how it once was.