Palace

Five thousand zhang, six thousand zhang, seven thousand zhang... It kept growing until it reached ten thousand zhang, then stopped.

The newly grown sections fit seamlessly with the original mountain body, as though they had formed naturally.

The fine sword marks across the mountain's surface became deeper and sharper.

Every sword mark glimmered faintly, emanating sword intent sufficient to slay cultivators at the early stage of the Third Step.

The second star domain, wood attribute.

Those towering ancient trees absorbed the origin source and began to grow even more luxuriant.

Their canopies, already vast enough to blot out the sky and cover the sun, became denser still.

Among the canopies, the wood-element spirits leaped about. With every leap, specks of green light drifted from their bodies, nourishing the forest below. When those specks landed upon the trunks, fine growth rings emerged across the bark, every ring containing pure, concentrated vitality.

The third star domain, water attribute. That vast ocean absorbed the origin source and began to grow deeper.

The seawater, once clear enough to reveal the bottom, became even more transparent, so transparent that one could see a single grain of sand in the deepest reaches of the seabed.

Within the sea, the water-element spirits swam. Each time they moved, tiny droplets fell from their bodies and merged into the ocean. Those droplets contained pure water origin, filling the entire sea with life.

The fourth star domain, fire attribute.

Those rivers of magma absorbed the origin source and began to burn more fiercely.

The magma, originally orange-red, turned blazing white, its temperature so high that even the void warped.

Within the magma rivers, the fire-element spirits danced. With every dance, fresh magma erupted from beneath the earth and joined the rivers. The fifth star domain, earth attribute.

That heavy landmass