Without any warning, a sense of danger spread through the hearts of every cultivator within a radius of three million li.
Taiyi Tianzun raised his head and set down the fishing rod in his hand. The surrounding space warped, and gravity pulling in an abnormal direction "dragged" him to the side of an enormous sphere.
This was a strange place, a world beyond the world, a heaven within a cave. In the terms of Modern Dharma Cultivators, it was the result of vast quantities of spiritual power interfering with gravity, causing space to warp and close in on itself.
The overwhelming majority of grotto-heavens existed on planets, situated at the nodes of mountain spirit veins. Only the naturally greater gravity of rocky planets, combined with planetary spirit veins, could support large grotto-heavens. But this grotto-heaven was different. Its distance from Houtu of Divine Land and the Taiyin Moon both exceeded three light-seconds; the curvature of space here was slight, and gravity weak.
By all reason, a grotto-heaven could not exist here.
And what supported this grotto-heaven was precisely this strange sphere.
The sphere appeared bright within this pitch-black grotto-heaven. It resembled an enormous celestial globe, its interior displaying boundless stars. No matter from which angle one looked, a different sight could be seen. The scenes reflected upon the sphere were faintly warped and distorted, like a bizarre, kaleidoscopic dream. It was only because there was so much starlight upon it that the sphere as a whole appeared bright.
And no matter how powerful a magnifying lens one used to observe the sphere, there was no way to see clearly what lay upon it. If one tried to perceive it with spiritual sense, the immense star map would overwhelm the mind and render one unconscious in an instant.
Because this starry