Beneath the tranquil sea of clouds in the Third Heaven lay the raging, roaring Gang Wind of the Second Heaven. One was stillness taken to its utmost, the other motion taken to its utmost, yet both were light, drifting phenomena of the sky. By rights, the wind should have swept up the clouds and mingled with them. In fact, however, the natural laws of heaven and earth held them in peaceful coexistence, as distinct as the Jing and Wei rivers-another of the myriad world's wondrous sights.
Now, however, under the direction of the Green-Robed Ancestor's Dragon Curse Divine Ability, a stretch of Gang Wind at the very top of the Second Heaven changed its horizontal course and shot straight upward. It hurtled into the Third Heaven, tore open the sea of clouds, and became an ocean of wind and waves, charging head-on toward the sea of fire surging out of the sunset's afterglow.
The waves of wind and sea of fire collided from above and below, evenly matched. Like water poured onto level ground, they immediately formed a horizontal hurricane that spread in every direction. Driven by the hurricane, the sea of clouds rose in turbulent waves around the breach torn open by the Gang Wind. It was as though someone were throwing stones into the center of a lake, one after another without pause, sending an unbroken succession of ripples spreading outward, ring after ring.
Meanwhile, the clash of wind and fire roared like thunder, forming a wave of sound that spread outward with the waves of cloud, reaching a thousand li away.
A thousand li away, a great crowd watched. Powerful winds struck their faces, and thunder battered their ears. Those in the Fourth Realm fared well enough, able to remain where they were without being moved, but