Chatting as they traveled, Lin Ke caught sight of the enormous canopy about an hour later.
It was not the green he had expected, but a succession of crowns resembling tawny mountain ranges, stretching three or four kilometers from east to west.
Hundreds of meters tall!
At least several thousand meters long and wide!
The canopy looked like an entire pyramid with rounded contours.
Beneath it were trunks upon trunks, all intertwined.
Put it this way: Lin Ke thought even a single branch of the Mountain Giant Banyan was as thick as the Oriental Pearl Tower, let alone his trunk.
Although Lin Ke had known Mountain Island was huge, he had never imagined it would be huge to this extent.
Still, he already knew that the Mountain Giant Banyan had earned the appreciation of someone in the Fifth Realm, who had established some sort of barrier here.
Otherwise, given the Mountain Giant Banyan's size, people on many surrounding islands could probably see him in his entirety simply by looking up.
Then, even setting everything else aside, the endless stream of animals coming to roost would have annoyed the Mountain Giant Banyan to no end.
Even so, the closer they came, the sparser the plants became, and the more animals there were.
Snakes, insects, rats, ants, birds, and beasts-there was everything!
Upon entering a certain stretch of space, Lin Ke immediately sensed something different.
The sun's heat weakened, and the surrounding air grew much damper, with a cool, shaded feel.
The entire barrier was under the Mountain Giant Banyan's control. He absorbed almost sixty or seventy percent of the sun's heat and light, so it did not feel quite so hot.
At the same time, to create the environment he preferred, he kept the humidity here very high, making it ideal