After silently cursing the Dust-Dyed Realm Devil Lord, Zhang Yuan shifted his gaze from the boundless blue East Sea of the Southern Heaven Realm toward the land below-or, rather, the coast.
He could not see the coast.
All he saw along the East Sea's edge were sheer cliffs soaring ten thousand fathoms high. A towering mountain range stretching tens of thousands of miles stood before him, completely blocking the coast behind it. Looking up, he saw an enormous hole in the cliff face, as though someone had punched straight through the mountain's belly.
The hole was not dark. Instead, cyan light poured out in torrents, tinting every feature of the sea cliffs green. Looking inside, he saw that the light came from countless cyan talismans a hundred zhang tall. Tier upon tier of palaces floated above them, and a jade bridge connected the interior to the outside, with numerous cultivators coming and going. Outside the cave stood a thousand-meter stone stele inscribed with the words "Azure Talisman Grotto-Heaven."
"What magnificent immortal grandeur."
Zhang Yuan could not help voicing his admiration.
He had visited quite a few major powers, but most adhered to a principle of keeping a low profile. Heaven-Reaching City, which he had just left, the Eastern Cen Palace of the Azure Sea, the Grand Hua Jade Heaven Sect, and the Azure Nether Immortal Sect of the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm all maintained a certain degree of splendor without deliberately flaunting it.
As far as he remembered, only the Three Immortal Isles of the Inverted Sea were as grand and ostentatious as the Azure Talisman Grotto-Heaven.
But the Three Immortal Isles were the territory of the Aohai Cui Clan, with three Golden Core True Lords overseeing them. In sheer number of True Lords, only the Western Bian Chu Clan