Islands dotted the Northern Dark Sea, but many of those islands were actually enormous continents, some even approaching the size of several of the larger continents among the later Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
In the Northern Dark Sea, where waves surged violently and a single swell could span half a universe, these continents amounted to little. They hardly counted as enormous, so they were all called islands.
They moved with the surging sea. Apart from a few that Immortal Kings had anchored against the towering waves with their own mighty power, preserving their configuration unchanged through the ages, most drifted with the currents, never knowing when a great wave might sweep them away.
They might enter undisturbed depths, or simply be flung into another corner. Some were even driven down by falling waves into the fathomless main body of the Dark Sea, submerged in the Northern Dark Sea's true depths, perhaps not to surface until the next epoch.
This place had a distinctive ecology.
The outer wave zone was where countless cultivators traveled and mingled, and where the Northern Dark Sea's specialties gathered.
Vast numbers of giant immortal vessels sailed across the Dark Sea's towering waves, dredging up its specialties, whether Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures or creatures of the Dark Sea.
They would eventually head to the islands anchored by the Kun Peng Kings of the past to trade.
Some cultivators lived on the drifting islands, calling themselves the wandering people of the Dark Sea.
On an island of middling size, Chen Yao appeared amid the wilderness.
There were many islands in the Dark Sea. Quite a few had sunk in the previous epoch and only resurfaced in this one. Most of the time, their cultivators perished during the long years submerged in the deep sea, and sometimes