Amid a stretch of snow stood two figures.
One in blue robes...
One in white robes...
The figure in blue stood with his hands behind his back, his robes fluttering like a holly tree standing in the snow.
The figure in white wore the Jade Flute at his waist, his scholar's robes billowing. His white hair was neatly tied, and a red ribbon danced and streamed through the wind and snow...
From afar, that dazzling splash of red looked utterly out of place in this white, snowy world!
The footprints behind them lasted only a short while before the rushing wind and snow erased them...
"If you want to enter the Divine Realm, I won't stop you...!" The Dean looked at the youth beside him, whose red hair ribbon fluttered around his bound white hair, and sighed deeply inwardly.
"But this Divine Realm..." Reminiscence surfaced in the Dean's eyes. "Though it's called the Divine Realm, it's no good place..."
Su Mo turned to the Dean and asked, "Just what sort of place is this Divine Realm?"
The Dean shook his head and said slowly, "The Divine Realm is extremely peculiar. Though we can enter it from our world, the Divine Realm itself is not within this world."
"Not beneath this heaven and earth? What do you mean?" Su Mo was puzzled.
The Dean looked at Su Mo and asked, "Have you ever heard of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths?"
Su Mo shook his head.
The Dean sighed and said:
"With your current cultivation, I shouldn't be telling you these things. But since you're going into the Divine Realm, I can only give you a rough outline first, so you'll have some understanding of it."
Su Mo nodded and bowed to the Dean.
He knew the Dean must have his