Suddenly, purple-gold light gathered and filled their surroundings, like mercury spilling across the ground, illuminating the cramped, dim interior until it was clear and bright.
Then Chen Heng and the others felt their bodies grow light.
They were lifted bodily into the air and vanished from where they stood.
The waters of the Eastern Sea stretched across countless vast expanses, boundless to the eye...
And this was the deepest part of those waters, a place close to the roots of the earth.
In the mortal world, people often spoke of the hells of the Nine Depths and the Dragon Palace ten thousand fathoms below, mentioning the two together.
Most believed that both places gathered the strange wonders of darkness and light, abounding in uncanny things, that encountering them brought ill to men and harm to living creatures.
These were worlds of dread and terror, not places for the people of the living world even to speak of...
Yet now that the cultivators had come here themselves and truly seen it,
they found only an unworldly immortal land, a realm of light.
Magnificent jeweled towers, lofty treasure thrones.
Vermilion balustrades and jade doors, painted pillars and carved beams-
There was no telling how many tens of millions of miles the Dragon Palace occupied; a single glance could not encompass it.
Above were wind and moon; below were mountains and waters. Among its plants were flowers and willows; among its creatures were birds and fish. There were dwellings, jade halls, and golden houses.
In scale and grandeur, it was truly vast and majestic!
Chen Heng looked out and saw an endless expanse of glazed crystal walls enclosing the entire enormous Dragon Palace, shutting out the layers of seawater and dividing the worlds within and without.
Beyond the glazed crystal walls,
endless sea