The passage Zhu Yao opened was not long.
The group had taken only a few steps through it before entering an unknown place.
Unlike the Void, this place had no sun, moon, or stars. Everything around them was a murky gray, and within that nothingness, something caught everyone's eye.
It was a "tree."
The tree was enormous, so enormous that they could not see it in its entirety.
Its trunk was like a pillar holding up heaven and earth, growing out of the depths of nothingness.
Its branches were transparent, reaching into the void, some thick, some thin, some straight, some winding.
Every branch gave off a faint white glow, like ice gleaming in the dark. The outermost twigs vanished into the far reaches of nothingness, their destinations unknown.
"This is..."
Everyone was stunned by the sight. The dragon palaces, phoenix nests, immortal courts, and jeweled terraces they had imagined seemed so insignificant before this "tree."
Xie Changsheng was the first to recover. He looked at the glowing branches and murmured, "These are... spatial passages?"
Black Mountain tilted his head back, his mouth hanging wide open. "Good heavens... this is way too big..."
Zhu Yao nodded. "This is my residence."
She turned back to the group and explained to Si Chen, "During Ancient Times, I opened up this space."
"These passages originally connected ten thousand realms. I could reach anywhere from here, and return here from anywhere."
"The spatial passages are intricately intertwined. In this nothingness, they look like the branches of a tree."
At this point, a hint of nostalgia entered her voice. "That is why the Demon Realm also calls it..."
"...the Divine Fusang Tree."
Luo Hongyi had still been gazing up at the tree, but upon hearing Zhu Yao's words, she immediately whipped out her pen, opened