Ordinarily, a person's Sea of Bitterness was pitch-black or dark green. If they could not connect with the Wheel of Life, it remained black.
But Lin Yi's was different. His Sea of Bitterness was an ocean of five colors, complete with a strange celestial phenomenon. Who could he even complain to about that?
The roar of a sea in turmoil filled the thatched hut, deafening as ten thousand galloping horses.
Lin Yi sat motionless. Radiance burst from his Sea of Bitterness, dazzling to behold. Waves thundered without cease, Five-Colored Divine Light flashed, lightning danced, and towering swells rose skyward.
Though his Sea of Bitterness lay hidden within his body, its waves roared like those of a real ocean.
Rumble...
Lightning erupted again and again above the surging five-colored sea, mingling with the towering waves. Sea and sky seemed to meet amid a blaze of brilliant color.
Several hours passed before the Five-Colored Divine Light slowly receded and the roar of the waves began to fade. Another half hour went by before the hut finally fell silent. Lin Yi's Sea of Bitterness calmed, its radiance withdrew, and the waves fell still.
Before long, Lin Yi woke. Divine light gleamed in his eyes, and when he rose, he seemed far more vital, with a trace of an immortal cultivator's aura about him.
He circulated the profound art recorded in the Dao Scripture. A five-colored point of light appeared where his Sea of Bitterness lay, shining like a light source the size of a pigeon's egg.
A cultivator's Sea of Bitterness lived up to its name: barren, lifeless, and devoid of vitality. Yet at the center of Lin Yi's sea, that five-colored light shone like the first rays of dawn, brimming with life.
As Wu Qingfeng had told him, the higher one climbed