At last-
The outline of a vast city burst into view.
Southern Heavenly City.
The foremost sanctuary for rogue cultivators in the Gouwu Sea.
It spanned eight hundred li, its walls two or three hundred zhang high, towering like mountains. At the city's center, a mountain ten thousand zhang tall rose from the earth and pierced the clouds, a golden hall on its summit glittering in the sunlight.
But that was only the city.
The true Heavenly South Island was a colossal island group stretching tens of thousands of li!
The main island was long and narrow, spanning thirty-seven thousand eight hundred li from east to west and over six thousand nine hundred li from north to south at its widest point, shaped like a giant sword lying across the sea.
Thirty-seven thousand li!
What did that mean?
His Cangming Island was not even thirty thousand li across.
Beyond the main island, six subsidiary islands surrounded it like stars clustered around the moon, guarding it on every side. Each spanned three to five thousand li, with towers and pavilions standing thick upon them and spiritual light flickering everywhere. Every one was a Third-Tier Island.
Farther out, over a thousand reefs and islands of varying sizes dotted the sea like satellites, packed so densely that their edges vanished beyond sight.
Countless flying boats shuttled between the islands, escape lights interweaving into a vast transportation network covering nearly a hundred thousand li.
Viewed from above, the whole of Heavenly South Island resembled an octopus spreading its enormous tentacles, bringing the surrounding hundred thousand li of sea under its control.
"What a grand undertaking."
An unusual glint flashed through Qing Chen's eyes.
He had spent so many years in the Gouwu Sea, yet this was his first time seeing Southern Heavenly City, the