As far as the eye could see, a vast green plain stretched ahead, without an end in sight.
Five immense, glittering Gang clouds spread like a canopy and a net across the heavens, enfolding the entire plain.
Viewed from afar, clouds and wilderness met in vivid, gorgeous colors, a splendor like embroidered brocade.
The boundless scenery left one breathless with wonder.
The five Gang clouds shone with the colors of wood-green, fire-red, earth-yellow, metal-white, and water-black, their radiance mingling as though coating the entire plain in a halo of glazed iridescence.
The Five Clouds Wilds-
Had earned its name from precisely this.
According to Song Rupu, this place had once been dark and sinister too, with turbid qi rampaging everywhere as though about to engulf everything, without any soft or brilliant light.
It had looked every bit as ghastly as the other regions within the Earth Abyss.
Only after True Lord Qiao had carved a mountain into a pillar here, finding the landscape truly unsuitable as a sanctuary for contemplating the mysteries, had he used his immense power to transform heaven and earth, forcibly creating these five boundless Gang clouds, which rose a thousand zhang high and illuminated the void.
After True Lord Qiao left to establish a cave abode deeper within the Earth Abyss and cultivate there, the Five Clouds Wilds had been entrusted to the Scenery Cultivator Ding Geng.
At the very center of the five surrounding Gang clouds stood a stone pillar a thousand zhang tall, its surface spotless and smooth as a mirror.
At the sight of it, Chen Heng's gaze involuntarily sharpened.
It was on that very pillar that True Lord Qiao of the Zhongyi Sword Sect had left the cultivation method for "Yin-Eroding Red Water"!
But no living being had currently stepped within a