Shi Yi traveled across the boundless land. In the distance, the World Tree stood magnificent and majestic, blotting out the sky. Even from an immeasurable distance, he could see it clearly, down to its bark, ancient and weathered like a Horned Dragon.
It was truly luxuriant, its leaves too numerous to count. Each leaf supported a star and was wreathed in chaos qi. From afar, it resembled an enormous canopy.
Along its trunk and drooping branches, the laws of the Great Dao poured down like a vast ocean, like a waterfall from heaven. The sight was sacred and breathtaking. Wherever its blessings reached, astonishing geniuses were certain to be born and swiftly rise to prominence.
Immortal Ones often sat beneath the tree, listening to the sounds of the Dao it emitted. Species that lived in symbiosis with the World Tree flitted among its branches and leaves, brimming with vitality. Everything flourished.
The World Tree kept the Dao laws of the entire Foreign Realm in perfect order.
Beyond that, the flawless Great Dao, magnificent landscapes, royal cities and ancient monuments, lands of immortality... all proclaimed the transcendence of this Ancient Realm.
Walking through such a vast world, Shi Yi felt something he could not quite put into words. He wondered what a flourishing age the Primordial Ancient World had enjoyed before the invasion.
The Primordial Ancient World had possessed a World Tree then, too—a Jianmu, mighty as a dragon and imposing beyond measure, piercing all thirty-three heavens. True Dragons, True Phoenixes, and other creatures had built their nests upon it. Throughout the thirty-three heavens stood clusters of celestial palaces, jade towers, and jeweled halls. Pure Lands of everlasting life were everywhere, exchanging what they had with the Immortal Homeland... True Immortals descended into the mortal world, and Immortal Kings blessed all