Through the Wuji Sword Spirit, Ye Tian also learned some basic facts about this continent.
The people here called this land the Nine Heavens Continent.
The Nine Heavens Continent did not mean that there were nine heavens; the number nine merely echoed the nine swords in the Primordial Sword Manual.
From this, one could see how important those nine swords were to the entire continent.
The Nine Heavens Continent was roughly divided into five parts: the four continents of east, south, west, and north, with every two neighboring continents separated by rivers.
There were four rivers in total, all sharing the same name: the Heaven-Connecting River.
The four Heaven-Connecting Rivers all flowed in the same direction, eventually converging into the Heavenly Sea at the very center of the four continents.
The Heavenly Sea was no smaller than any of the four continents. More importantly, Central Continent was located within the Heavenly Sea.
Although Central Continent bore the name of a continent, it was in fact merely an island at the center of the Heavenly Sea. Its transcendent status came from the legendary temple situated upon Central Continent Island.
With Ye Tian's terrifying speed, he flew north for several days before finally catching sight of the Heaven-Connecting River.
North of the Heaven-Connecting River lay Northern Continent.
Looking north from high in the sky, he saw a distant world clad in silver, with hazy snow filling the heavens. The earth and the endlessly rolling mountains in the distance were all buried beneath thick snow.
From afar, it was a world of dazzling white snow, clearly divided from the lush, vibrant green of Eastern Continent by the Heaven-Connecting River. They were entirely different lands.
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