Dry Province, central region, toward the southeast.
About twelve hundred li away, there stood an incomparably vast circular mountain range.
Legend had it that this place had originally been a plateau, rising more than fifteen hundred meters above sea level.
A thousand years ago, a baleful star fell from the heavens and struck the heart of the plateau. In an instant, its interior was nearly completely shattered and hollowed out, forming an enormous depression over a hundred li in diameter. At the same time, more than a hundred million tons of earth were hurled out from the center and scattered across the surrounding area.
In the end, it formed a colossal mountain range, hollow within and circular without.
Not only that, seemingly due to that baleful star, the environment at its center underwent tremendous changes. Vast amounts of water vapor appeared, eventually forming an immense lake nearly twenty kilometers in diameter.
Even more wondrously, the waters of this lake were dazzlingly beautiful. Whenever night fell, they reflected the boundless starry sky, as though countless stars flowed within them. This remained so whether there were stars or a moon in the heavens or not.
Come daytime, everything returned to normal.
For these reasons, this place was named the Falling Star Mountain Range, and this lake was named Starry Sky Lake.
Because of its uniqueness, it was hailed as one of Dry Province's three great wonders. One could say that if you came to Dry Province, you had to visit Falling Star; if you went to Falling Star, you had to tour Starry Sky Lake.
Of course, those who came here were basically all cultivators. Ordinary people were practically nowhere to be found.
Dry Province itself was an exceedingly arid land. Not to mention a lake of this scale—even rivers were few