Leaden clouds veiled the sky, and the winds were bleak.
Chen Heng looked around and saw only gleaming waters joining sky and cloud, vast and boundless.
Overhead, moonlight flowed and melted like water into the raging sea beneath the clouds, sweeping and surging everywhere with the tides, with no telling where it would finally go.
Both were realms of water, vast ocean domains.
If the Dragon Lord's residence yesterday, with great whales turning the waves and fish and dragons dancing together,
had truly been a scene brimming with life, all things flourishing,
then this Great Marsh Longevity Sin-Deliverance Grotto-Heaven was a boundless, desolate expanse, with only the turbid waters of a raging sea endlessly churning and tossing.
Apart from a few great islands and towering ancient mountains that scraped the sky, there was no other scenery in the sea, much less any living creatures.
It resembled the ancient scene of a little world at the first sundering of heaven and earth, when the clear rose above and the turbid sank below, and the essence of heaven and the spirit of earth were still mingled in a single body of water!
Just then, Chen Heng caught sight of what seemed to be faint flashes of golden light on a distant island, glittering brilliantly.
Their radiance was pure and bright, like some heavenly palace or treasure vault beneath the sea.
A little curious, Chen Heng swept his broad sleeve and urged his sword light into motion, instantly soaring skyward toward the flashing light.
Before long, he reached the air above the great island and brought his sword light to a halt.
He saw a stretch of pearl palaces and shell towers, jade halls and jeweled mansions, magnificent in the extreme.
The halls and pavilions had all been built to follow the terrain,