In the East Sea, a beautiful island sat upon the water.
On the island, trees stood in groves, and all manner of grasses flourished.
There were white sandy beaches and green trees casting shade.
At its center, a towering, fiery-red tree rose from the earth, piercing the clouds and chasing the sun, magnificent beyond measure.
Flocks of birds that blotted out the sky flew above this stretch of ocean.
This nameless island was a world of birds.
And that fiery-red tree was even more a kingdom of birds.
Birds of different species built their nests from the top of the fiery-red tree downward.
There were swan geese, gulls, eagles, orioles, swallows, wild geese, bustards, bulbuls, reed parrotbills, quails, quails, mynas, white storks, white cranes, egrets, larks, spotted thrushes, Jingwei, golden orioles, yellow buntings, sparrows, thunderbirds, parrots, hawk-cuckoos, fish eagles, fish geese, ospreys, swifts, mandarin ducks, Chinese bulbuls, white-tailed sea eagles, bar-headed geese, scaly-breasted munias, pied hornbills, Bantianjiao, grey bushchats, northern vermilion birds, steppe eagles, long-eared owls, long-legged hawks, long-tailed finches, ruddy kingfishers, Chinese sparrowhawks, red-necked cranes, red-crowned cranes, empress sparrows, painted storks, dodos, short-eared owls, and more.
Ranked by their supernatural bloodlines, intelligence, and strength, these birds actually built their nests in an orderly arrangement from the top down to the lower levels.
After Jiang Yang had lived on this fiery-red tree for over a month, he had come to understand something of the hierarchy of strength in this kingdom of birds.
At the very top of the fiery-red tree was the uncrowned king of all the birds on this island.
Whether they were supernatural birds roosting in the fiery-red tree or ordinary birds living on the island, all submitted beneath its wings.
Jiang Yang was still only a tiny young bird, a mutated little fire crow at most.
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