Xiang Yuan led Senior Jiang through the Jambu Gate and came to stand atop a mountain peak. The beautiful figures in black and white were both silent, their gazes sweeping the surroundings as they sensed the changes in the laws of heaven and earth.
It was unknown where they were in this realm. The sky was blanketed by a thick layer of clouds, churning and surging like a black ocean.
The clouds were dark and eerie, not a uniform black. Flashes of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth—the five colors—would occasionally streak through them, converging into darkness.
The five-colored energy was incomparably vast, the tangible manifestation of intertwined laws of heaven and earth. From time to time, purple lightning tore across the sky like Heaven roaring in fury, making it impossible for Xiang Yuan to remain tranquil as he tried to comprehend those laws.
What terrible manners. The neighbors have work tomorrow!
After several fruitless attempts, Xiang Yuan's expression turned exceptionally grim.
There was no need for maybes. This heaven and earth was rejecting him, refusing to let him comprehend its laws.
One could force his way through and gain insight, but it would take a great deal of time. Worse, the lightning kept interrupting him, carrying the risk of cultivation deviation.
Xiang Yuan stepped forward and looked down from the mountaintop, only to find the landscape beneath his feet quite bizarre.
The surrounding peaks resembled enormous flower petals, each one curved yet razor-sharp. Their pointed summits were like hooks and claws, as if some irresistible force had forcibly molded them into shape.
These petal-shaped peaks overlapped layer upon layer, encircling the area in a distinctive ring-like formation.
At the center of the mountains, directly before Xiang Yuan, the land dipped down into an incomparably vast basin.
The terrain around