The Path to Heaven, formed from the World Tree, spanned the abyss, colossal beyond measure.
Hearing about it was one thing, seeing it was another. Yet the moment the real thing stood before their eyes, they still could not help but be shocked.
There was actually such an enormous tree in the world—and this was merely one of its branches. It had long since died, yet after hundreds of thousands of years, it had not decayed in the slightest, as though eternal.
Patterns covered the World Tree, like stars themselves, depicting one vast celestial body after another.
Streams of light continually swept across it. The patterns themselves seemed alive, containing the laws of the cosmos and the mighty power of the stars.
"Legend has it that the World Tree took root in the Primordial Wilderness. Its trunk connected to the heavens, while its branches pierced the vault of the sky. It bore thirty million leaves, and each leaf could carry a star. It is said that this tree fed on stars and rooted itself amid the earthfire of the Primordial Wilderness."
Standing before the Path to Heaven, Gao Hua could not help but speak.
"Countless races once lived upon the World Tree. True dragons, qilin, phoenixes, and black tortoises all once nested within it. Within its trunk lay a vast great world, filled with countless demon gods."
Kong Qing also spoke. "I heard that the Ancient Demon Court was built from the leaves of the World Tree. It used thirty-six branches and leaves of the firmament and seventy-two roots of the earth as its materials, with the fire of the sun and the splendor of the lunar yin as flame, and the cosmic starry sky as charcoal. It took tens of millions of years to forge, before finally being condensed