Cloud-Embracing Summit.
Half of this peak stood within the city, while the other half pierced beyond the heavens. Clouds surged around its summit year-round, and reaching out felt as though one could pluck drifting clouds from the Nine Heavens. Hence its name.
The Yun Clan's Nine Heavens Gathering was being held on this highest peak-Cloud-Embracing Summit.
At that moment, Yun Qing stood with his hands behind his back in Cloud Dream Marsh, gazing toward that highest peak.
Even Eldest Young Master Yun could not help feeling a swell of wonder at the magnificent, fantastical sights he had seen along the way through Cloud Dream Marsh.
Nine tiers of immortal city, ten thousand miles of cloud lakes.
Cloud Dream Marsh was the supreme main city that the Yun Clan openly presented to the outside world. It had stood for Ten Thousand Ages, anchoring a Cloud Vein beneath it, and ranked among the very highest-grade super immortal cities in the Heavens.
Nine innate spiritual veins flowed around the city. The jade paving bricks of its streets and alleys bore natural heavenly patterns that gathered spiritual energy, while the sweeping eaves of its towers caught stars and embraced the moon. Alchemy shops, artifact pavilions, herb gardens, trading houses, immortal boat docks, and the businesses of its various branches stretched for tens of millions of miles. Cultivators from across the Heavens, vassal tribes, guest elders, and retainers came and went in an endless stream, its flourishing prosperity unrivaled throughout Heavenly Origin.
Yet only the very highest echelon of the Heavenly Origin Continent knew that the true core of the Yun Clan, which dominated Heavenly Origin and stood among the nine pinnacle powers of the Heavens, did not lie in Cloud Dream Marsh.
It lay behind the city, deep within the ancient Sea of Clouds: