Eastern Territory, Jade Dawn School.
Xiaoming Great Marsh-
Within a vast, boundless realm of marshes, seemingly gathering all the spiritual beauty and secluded grace of the eight reaches, mighty auras linking heaven and earth rose in towering grandeur, drawing in and releasing immeasurable spiritual energy, exchanging what they possessed and sharing insights and perceptions with the cosmos.
It was just then that the moisture above the waters swelled and gradually rose.
In an instant.
Clouds closed in from every side, darkening the daylight, while a thunderous boiling roar erupted.
As the waves overturned.
They resembled a thousand tiers of cloud peaks, sweeping in with the sea.
They seemed about to snap heaven's pillars and secretly shake earth's axle, snowy waves drenching the clouds as they soared a hundred yards high!
This realm was called Xiaoming Great Marsh.
It was the site of the Jade Dawn School's Mountain Gate!
One of Xudu Heaven's fourteen Spirit Grottos!
Were one to stand at the highest point of the heavens and cast one's gaze downward-
Within these boundless marshlands, besides the mist-wreathed, endless waves.
The most striking sight was nine enormous islands, brilliant as an array of stars, spread in majestic splendor across Xiaoming Great Marsh.
The giant islands were so vast that their breadth could scarcely be measured by sight.
Rather than calling them islands.
It would have been more fitting to call each a small continent.
At the center of each giant island stood an ancient mountain that scraped the heavens, its summit beyond the reach of an upturned gaze. Its ranges extended far beyond a thousand miles, mighty springs cleaving ravines as they fell, cold waterfalls flying through the air.
Lush grasses vied in abundance, tall trees flourished-
Within the mountains, countless towers, terraces, palaces, temples, pavilions, and layered gateways could