The Southern Sea.
At the heart of the sky was a savage rift running from north to south, stretching endlessly across almost half the Southern Sea's heavens. The thunder, flames, and wood qi within had all vanished, replaced by surging chaos qi.
Crossing Sea, in the Great Void.
Xu Xuan stood there in deep-purple royal robes. Behind him stood an armored man in quiet attendance-none other than Bo Chang.
Ahead, a black decree wreathed in netherglow hung suspended, faintly connected to certain damaged roads within the Great Void. Now, all manner of wondrous phenomena began to arise around it.
This sea lay northwest of Heaven Pool, alongside Mistsea, which Xu Xuan had conquered in the past. It also happened to stand directly above the Clear Vast Way's Yearwood Sea. A hundred li across, it was not particularly large.
Continuing north from Crossing Sea would bring one to Flame Sea, the Fire Crows' territory. Traveling farther north would lead to Vermilion Cliff and the Southern Border.
The water was dark and filled with netherglow, clearly a body of water where Ren-aligned nature had gathered. No wind or waves stirred its mirror-flat surface. Encircled by reefs, it resembled a great lake.
Xu Xuan had been waiting here for a little while, ready to receive the Purple Mansion cultivators descending from the Dragon Court.
Apart from establishing Grotto-Heavens, some True Lords of the Ancient Era had also opened individual Heavenly Roads as secret routes for lesser cultivators to travel. [Crossing Sea] was the site of a Heavenly Road marker established by the ancient Dragon Court.
Mistcloud Heaven's location was exceedingly well concealed and unfixed, though it remained above the corresponding region in the physical world. Often, these few Heavenly Roads were its only entrances and exits.
"I wonder how Panmi managed to locate