504 Heavenly Decline

Puppet Demon City passed through the crystal tunnel and arrived in the crystal world deep within Vast Cliff Path. Vast Cliff Path was truly a place where "another world lay within," "beauty shone in dazzling splendor," and "wonders defied all prediction"—such descriptions were by no means excessive here.

At present, the metallic demon city floated in the void. Below it stretched an incomparably deep and beautiful sea of trees.

The unbroken vista of towering trees blanketed in pale snow and ice carried a dreamlike air, yet it was also filled with a terrifying silence.

However, these trees had all been frozen within crystal. One could vaguely make out creatures from ancient ages, likewise transformed into a state of stillness, like insects trapped in amber.

"Vast and misty, the great hollow floats high in heaven; boundless and immeasurable, all is crystalline." At the sight before him, several lines of poetry surfaced in He Ping's mind.

The land ahead stretched on without end, its surface gleaming with a crystal-like translucence. Puppet Demon City itself was immense, comparable to a void warship. Before Puppet Demon City, ordinary people were as tiny as ants, scarcely worth mentioning.

Yet now, as Puppet Demon City flew over this land, the colossal metallic mechanism-city cast vast shadows over the crystal earth like a dark cloud. Still, compared to the boundless expanse of this land, Puppet Demon City was no more than a grain of millet in the sea.

He Ping's pupils were cold as sharpened blades as he continued observing the "continent" beneath Puppet Demon City.

This region was truly vast. Beyond the frozen sea of trees, there were mountains formed from countless crystal clusters. These diamond-shaped mirrored bodies reflected light. In some regions of the continent, luminous mist rose into the air, while fine glowing threads