The sunlight was bright.
The breeze was gentle.
Jiang Qiao stood where he was, waiting for the void to fade, until the view before him opened up.
The Inner World was still an island.
Only it was larger, stretching beyond the limits of his sight.
And unlike the lifeless outer world, there were no charred trees here. Instead, everything brimmed with vitality, the flowers, grass, and trees lush and green.
Except...
Just like outside, apart from the plants...
There were no animals to be seen.
There was no birdsong, no chirping of insects, leaving the place frighteningly quiet.
And...
These trees were far too big.
Jiang Qiao looked up.
There was no sun in the sky, but there was plenty of light. Yet these trees, hundreds or even thousands of meters tall, blocked out most of it, leaving the woods rather dark.
That was right.
Thousands of meters!
Fuck, these trees grew as if they'd been fed super-fertilizer, each shooting up higher than the last!
Of course.
That wasn't the point.
The point was...
This place really was strange.
"Its atmosphere is almost identical to the world I saw in that vision."
"Dense immortal aura."
"Overwhelming vitality."
"But that world was above the Heavenly Palace, while this is still an island. Immortals danced in that world, but here, everything is deathly still."
Jiang Qiao narrowed his eyes.
With such dense vitality and all this swirling immortal mist, he still couldn't see anything that could "move."
That contrast...
Was eerie in itself.
He looked beyond the island.
An ocean stretched out before him.
According to Huang Tian, leaving by sea was impossible. No matter how far someone swam, they would eventually return to this island, as though trapped by a ghost wall.
Besides that...
Flying into the sky worked the same