After thoroughly surveying the terrain and Feng Shui, Shi Feiyang finally found a way to fill in the basin.
Although this place was called "Heaven Beyond," its elevation, measured from the sea level outside, was only a little over ten thousand zhang. Mountains exceeding that height were not exactly everywhere in the Zu Mountain World, but quite a few renowned peaks did, including Mount Tianpeng in the Eastern Sea, Mount Heijia in the Northern Sea, and Mount Damei in the Western Sea. All of them almost reached the Lingkong Immortal Realm above.
Golden Immortals from heaven often brought Heavenly Immortals down to the Lingqiao Immortal Mansion on Mount Tianpeng to drink tea and chat with Perfected Red Staff and his disciples. The highest point of Mount Heijia was called Fallen Gods Ridge, and its master Qi Nangong's most powerful mountain-guarding treasure was called the Fallen Gods Ward. He too had entertained Heavenly Immortals visiting the lower realm.
Measured from the ground, Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain was not as tall as those mountains. But the Circumcelestial Cycle's Celestial Orbits converged at the north and south poles, so measured downward from beyond the heavens, its entire mass stood in outer space, higher than all of them, with the geomagnetic field and atmosphere compressed beneath it.
For this reason, anyone gazing up into the great void from here could frequently see vast numbers of meteors.
Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain had enjoyed perpetual daylight since time immemorial, without any night. The sun was always overhead, and sometimes refraction through the magnetic light produced several suns. Once every cycle—three hundred and sixty years—the extraordinary sight of ten suns arranged in a circle appeared in the sky. That was also when the heat was greatest.
Amid this celestial radiance, many meteors could often be seen streaking