Sea and sky met, moisture mingling with spiritual energy to turn the entire third layer into a world like an ink-wash painting.
Buildings floated between water and sky, each displaying the impressive stature of the power it represented.
"The fourth layer of Guanhai City is a place visited by Sages in person."
"Ordinary outside cultivators, even those from great powers like the Hundred Sects of the Six Continents, can only establish properties here in the third layer."
As Lan Weihai explained, he led the group to the Listening Sea Pavilion, a property belonging to the Lanhai Sect.
Crimson Sea Tide Heaven.
Beneath that crimson sea, a floating mountain drifted quietly at the center of the crimson tide.
Dense spiritual energy gathered around it into a bubble-like illusion, within which numerous pavilions and small courtyards stood in an elegant arrangement.
Rare beasts ran about within, making it seem like an immortal paradise.
This was an important asset the Lanhai Sect's founding patriarch had left the sect before departing the Origin Realm.
The mountain was linked to the heaven and earth of Guanhai City. By drawing on the city's might, it could draw down the crimson sea, one of the Three Light Heavenly Sea's seas, gathering a pool of Crimson Heart Essence every hundred years.
It could help Nascent Soul Realm cultivators suppress their accumulated foundations for several months, allowing them to take one more tiny step beyond the limits of their own Nascent Souls.
"One more small step beyond the limits of the Nascent Soul?!"
Having arrived before the Crimson Heart Pool, the group's eyes filled with astonishment at Lan Weihai's explanation.
Even Bai Yi could not help studying the seemingly ordinary pool of crimson water before him.
After all, those who could come here every hundred years were surely the