White Cloud drifted on like a shuttle, crossing mountains and ridges. From You Province to the Southern Frontier was a distance of several hundred thousand kilometers; even aboard a flying vessel that raced through the skies day and night without pause, it had taken Zhang Tie eight days to reach the Southern Frontier.
It took eight days to reach the Southern Frontier, and another two days from entering its borders to arriving at its center of governance. This showed just how vast the Southern Frontier truly was.
The Southern Frontier was said to possess a Million Mountains. Looking down from the sky, one could see countless mountain ranges rising and falling across the earth like long dragons. Ridge after ridge stretched endlessly over the land like waves upon the sea, boundless as far as the eye could see.
Some of those mountains towered into the clouds, majestic and magnificent. Between the ranges, rivers and deep valleys crisscrossed one another, while caves and subterranean caverns formed spectacles of wonder. The mountains were densely forested and teemed with exotic beasts. In many places, even beneath the blazing sun of broad daylight, looking down from the sky revealed clouds and rosy vapors swirling about, the land shrouded year-round in a strange mist. Some of those mists were brilliantly multicolored, yet they were no longer truly mist, but poisonous miasma formed in the forests for all manner of reasons. The Southern Frontier alone possessed as many as seventeen varieties of poisonous miasma. As for the rare birds, strange beasts, heavenly treasures, and earthly riches hidden amid the Million Mountains, they were simply beyond counting. The entire Southern Frontier was Great Xia's greatest natural treasure vault.
The Southern Frontier had many mountains and little flat land. Thus, all its cities had been built in basins