Chaoshēng Pavilion.
It lay to the southeast of Guangning Prefecture, with the vast, verdant Manglong Mountain Range at its back and the estuary of the Raging Waves River before it.
Yahai was surrounded on all sides by land, but because its waters were boundless and vast, it had been named Yahai.
For several hundred years, Chaoshēng Pavilion had lived by the river and been built against the mountains. Though it was not as illustrious as the Crossing Immortal Gate, with several centuries of accumulation, it had still sunk deep roots into this southeastern corner.
Most of the buildings in the pavilion were piled from Black Stone quarried from the coastal cliffs of Yahai, their eaves arcing up like Flood Dragons probing the sea.
Because they were soaked year-round by river winds and water vapor, they carried a damp, bone-chilling cold.
The Raging Waves River made a sharp bend below the pavilion's feet, its waters smashing into the mountain wall and throwing up white waves several zhang high, the thunder of it unceasing day and night.
And Chaoshēng Pavilion was built atop the mountain cliffs of the river bay, with abyssal waters below and clouds and mist above.
In Guangning Prefecture, when it came to influence, Chaoshēng Pavilion's echelon was second only to the Crossing Immortal Gate.
In truth, if not for the upheaval thirty years ago, the current Chaoshēng Pavilion would have been able to radiate its influence across several surrounding prefectures, rather than stopping at Guangning Prefecture.
Sixty years ago, Chaoshēng Pavilion had produced a Chen Canghai.
Black Flood Dragon King Chen Canghai.
On a night sixty years ago, amid the tides of Yahai, he had stepped into the Unity Realm and taken the title Black Flood Dragon King.
His Black Dragon Swallowing Whale Skill was tyrannical beyond compare;