Ye Lin stood above the clouds, looking down upon the boundless continent below. As far as his eyes could see, there was nothing but an endless expanse of green.
That green was no ordinary green, but a rich, deep emerald so intense it was nearly black.
Like an enormous piece of jade that covered heaven and earth, it lay quietly embedded in the eastern reaches of the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm.
From high above, the continent's outline resembled a slumbering primordial beast. Its ridged back rose and fell without end, stretching all the way to the horizon, where it merged with the sea of clouds.
A faint spiritual mist shrouded the sky above the continent.
That spiritual mist was not still, but flowed slowly, like invisible rivers winding and coiling through the void.
Faint seven-colored lights flickered within the mist. They were the radiance naturally refracted when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth condensed to its utmost limit.
Whenever a breeze blew in from afar, the spiritual mist churned like waves upon the sea, surging one after another in every direction.
Beneath the clouds lay a primeval forest that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Viewed from above, the trees were packed tightly together, their canopies leaving almost no gaps between them, forming a thick, unbroken green vault.
That vault rose and dipped like green mountain ranges. Its higher points pierced straight into the clouds, while even its lower reaches were enough to blot out the sky.
Ye Lin gauged the distance. Those canopies were only several hundred zhang from the clouds, while some particularly towering trees had even pierced through the cloud layer, exposing their crowns above the sea of clouds like green islands.
Those giant trees were simply too immense.
Trees a thousand zhang tall