As a top Dao lineage of the Upper Realm, the Heavenly Immortal Academy was incomparably ancient. Its grounds alone occupied a full million li of mountains and rivers along the western reaches of Heavenly Immortal Province, far exceeding many ancient mortal kingdoms in size. It was vast beyond measure.
For an ordinary Divine Fire Realm cultivator to cross these millions of li of mountains and rivers, even traveling without sleep or rest, would take months.
And even so, the Heavenly Immortal Academy, vast as it was, occupied only one corner of Heavenly Immortal Province.
From this, one could see just how boundless the Upper Realm's Three Thousand Provinces were, and how immense the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Lands were. They truly surpassed the Mortal Realm universe of the later Dharma-ending age by an untold measure.
Yet worldly measures often failed to constrain the truly powerful.
Figures such as He Mu had long since shone alongside Immortal Kings. In their eyes, only the truly boundless Boundary Sea could feel vast, requiring long years to cross.
Whether it was the Heavenly Immortal Academy's million-li territory, Heavenly Immortal Province's hundreds of millions of li of mountains and rivers, or the nearly limitless Three Thousand Provinces of the Upper Realm, to He Mu, they were all nothing out of the ordinary-only a single step away.
The Heavenly Immortal Academy naturally bore no comparison whatsoever to the Boundary Sea. Thus, with a single step, He Mu crossed endless territory out of thin air and arrived at the academy's deepest core.
Here, a stone peak towered into the clouds, lofty and magnificent. A grotto at its summit breathed out an inexplicable aura, with radiant light and immortal mist constantly spilling from it.
A pillar of light shot skyward from that summit grotto, like an