Windstop Swamp, Central Island.
Central Island was no ordinary little isle. It was enormous, estimated to be at least a hundred times the size of Green Site City.
There were no flowers, grass, or trees on the island. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but devastation. It was a mesmerizing ruin. An extremely advanced civilization must once have existed here; among the crumbling walls and broken ruins, traces of that civilization occasionally revealed themselves. Moreover, this vanished civilization seemed extraordinarily advanced—at the very least, in Heaven Realm rune formations and energy control, it far surpassed the level of the cities in the present lower realm.
Only after the group set foot upon it and looked out from high ground did they discover that the center of the island was actually a "sea."
It was not large, but it was an ocean of utter stillness.
Ordinary Heaven-rank warriors did not find the sea particularly astonishing.
But Yue Yang, disguised as a guard within the group, was secretly shaken... He had never seen a sea so completely still, yet that stillness was not unfamiliar to him at all. There was something that resembled this sea.
Earth Gui Yin Fire.
The Earth Gui Yin Fire that would erupt with ten thousand times its force the instant the balance of energy was disturbed! It was almost exactly like this sea, differing only in the nature of its energy—one was fire, the other water. Was all this created by the power of some artifact? The question surfaced in Yue Yang's mind. If he could obtain this method of control, absorbing Earth Gui Yin Fire would become simple. In the future, when he entered the Gods' Ruins of Heaven-Piercing Tower, he would have another safeguard. Of course, it was not merely the