Is Our Douzhe Continent Really This Vast?

On Buzhou Mountain, Qing Xuan turned and looked toward the boundless Chaos outside the place of his birth.

As he drew closer, the Innate Grand Formation that had shrouded this place for millions of years began operating on its own.

Strands of Great Dao patterns parted to either side.

For the first time, the Innate Grand Formation that had covered the place of his birth for thirty-six Epoch Cycles revealed a path leading outside.

The boundless Chaos split apart on both sides.

Layers of Great Dao patterns lit up beneath Qing Xuan's feet, continuously extending into the depths of the formation.

Qing Xuan did not look back.

The instant he took the final step, the Chaos behind him closed once more, and the clearly visible path vanished with it.

The Innate Grand Formation concealed itself within Buzhou Mountain again.

Qing Xuan's gaze passed over mountain range after mountain range as he looked down toward the foot of Buzhou Mountain.

With the eyesight of a Taiyi Golden Immortal, ordinary mountains and rivers could not obstruct his vision at all.

Yet at this moment, no matter how far his gaze stretched, he could not see the foot of Buzhou Mountain.

Beneath the sea of clouds, there were still mountains.

Beyond the peaks lay mountain ranges that stretched on without end.

Layer upon layer of space overlapped beneath Pangu's pressure. Even regions that seemed close at hand might, in truth, be separated by unimaginable distances.

Other Innate Divine Beings were likewise being nurtured within them, separated from one another by endless distances and divided by Innate Grand Formations.

Qing Xuan was not surprised. This was Buzhou Mountain, the pillar supporting the heavens of the Primordial World.

If it were merely a mountain in the ordinary sense, it would not deserve such a name.

He chose a direction and started walking down the mountain.

He also took the opportunity to explore Buzhou Mountain, but did not encounter any other Innate Divine Beings walking outside.

Three Epoch Cycles passed before Qing Xuan reached the outer edge of Buzhou Mountain.

For a long time, no sound came from anywhere on Blue Star.

People had already known that the Primordial World was vast.

Qing Xuan had taken three Epoch Cycles just to travel from his place of birth on Buzhou Mountain to its outer edge, which was enough to prove that.

But only when the Cosmic Star Sea truly appeared before them did they realize they had still underestimated this world.

Those stars hanging in the heavens were not distant, tiny specks of light, but ancient stars that truly existed within the Primordial World.

And Buzhou Mountain, which Qing Xuan had taken more than 360,000 years to leave, rose from the earth with its body extending deep into the sea of stars.

In the plaza of Linjiang Extraordinary Academy, every student raised their heads.

After a long while, someone finally murmured,

"Douzhe Continent... is it really this vast?"

No one answered.

Douzhe Continent had flourishing cities, Soul Master Academies, Soul Hall, and a complete system of Soul Master inheritance.

It was one of the other worlds Blue Star knew best, and also one with the greatest number of successful returnees from training.

Yet neither the trainees who had returned in the past nor the records left behind by the Transcendent Association had ever mentioned a divine mountain that reached directly into the sea of stars.

Much less had anyone ever spent 129,600 years simply walking out of a mountain.

At the same time, the forty-six students training in Douzhe Continent also saw that boundless sea of stars through their respective training interfaces.

The class channel, which had been silent for a long time, received messages once more.

"Are those stars real?"

"Qing Xuan walked for an entire Epoch Cycle and still has not left the region where Buzhou Mountain is located. Just how vast is the entire Primordial World?"

After the final question appeared, the class channel fell silent again.

They had entered Douzhe Continent three months ago.

By now, most of the class had obtained their first Soul Ring and truly become Soul Masters.

With her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul and innate level-ten Soul Power, Su Qingxue had been named a core disciple by the Soul Hall Academy, and her Soul Power had broken through to level twelve.

Before entering another world, such progress would have been enough to make the entire class envious.

But compared with the Primordial World in the Firmament, where time was measured in Epoch Cycles, three months was simply too short.

A moment later, Su Qingxue left a message in the class channel.

"The size of a world does not equal the strength of its cultivation system."

"So far, Qing Xuan has not fought any living being. We still cannot judge what level a Taiyi Golden Immortal truly is."

Her words made quite a few students breathe a sigh of relief.

"That's right. A big place does not mean the people inside are powerful."

"The Primordial World has not even shown a single city yet. Other than Qing Xuan, we have not even seen a second living being."

"Douzhe Continent at least has a complete Soul Master system. As long as we keep cultivating, sooner or later, we will become true powerhouses in our own right."

Familiar cultivation realms and visible progress quickly restored their confidence.

In the monitoring hall of Linjiang Extraordinary Academy, Zhou Ruolan looked at the messages in the class channel without saying anything to discourage them.

These students had only just entered another world. The most important thing was to stabilize their mindsets.

But when she raised her head again and looked at the Cosmic Star Sea surrounding Buzhou Mountain in the Firmament, her gaze was utterly different from before.

"Su Qingxue is right about one thing."

"No matter how large the world is, it cannot directly prove how powerful Qing Xuan is."

Zhou Ruolan paused.

"But from this moment onward, no one can treat the Primordial World as an ordinary barbaric world any longer."

No one in the monitoring hall objected.

The Transcendent Association's first assessment of the Primordial World was swiftly revised as well.

The original classification of a high-energy primitive plane was not completely overturned.

Because even now, the Primordial World had shown no signs of cities, sects, or even civilization.

But under the category of plane scale, all previous estimates were deleted, leaving only blank space.

No one knew just how vast the Primordial World truly was.

Likewise, no one could determine whether that boundless sea of stars was merely a part of the Primordial World or already close to the full extent of the entire world.

The discussion sparked by the Primordial World's starry sky quickly swept across Blue Star.

Some people began to truly take this newly appeared unknown plane seriously, while others still believed that no matter how vast it was, it could not change the fact that the Primordial World lacked civilization.

However, Qing Xuan knew nothing of what was happening on Blue Star.

After leaving Buzhou Mountain, he traveled eastward all the way.

The sun and moon in the Firmament continuously turned, and the scenery around him changed rapidly as well.

Qing Xuan crossed mountain ranges and rivers, seeing countless ancient trees and spiritual plants that had grown for long ages, yet he never encountered another living being.

Until several thousand years later.

Qing Xuan's footsteps stopped for the first time.

Amid the mountains ahead, great swathes of ancient trees had collapsed, several peaks had broken apart from the middle, and an incomparably dense ferocious aura still lingered around the fractures.

On the ground, an enormous claw mark cut across the valley, stretching all the way to the end of his vision.

Qing Xuan lowered his gaze for a look.

"Fierce Beast..."

The moment his voice fell, the distant forest suddenly fell silent.

The wind that had been blowing through the mountains seemed to freeze at that moment.

A deep roar came from within the clouds. Then, an enormous black shadow slowly covered the heavens.

Qing Xuan raised his head and looked in the direction from which the shadow came.

Several thousand years after leaving Buzhou Mountain, he had finally encountered the first living being in the Primordial World.