Cosmic Realm, a place that is not friendly to anyone.
As soon as a realm divides, it gives way.
It is a bizarre world composed of nine overlapping star rings, forests, deserts, and a dead sea.
Indeed.
Three rings of desert, three rings of forest, three rings of dead sea—this is Cosmic Realm, a location unsuitable for human survival.
It’s not unsuitable for everyone.
Take the native lifeforms of the Cosmic Realm as an example. The outermost ring is the Divine Kingdom of the gods, the most vibrant first forest sea, as the Divine Kingdoms of the deities are established here. Even though it approaches the void, this is the area with the most life.
Within the first forest sea lies a desolate area referred to as the endless sea of sand by the natives of Cosmic Realm. This desolate place is also called the Other Shore, solely because divine guidance can be found here, leading one towards the realm of the Divine Spirit.
Further in from the desolate area, is the Sea of Suffering, boundless and vast. Only those who traverse it have the fortune to step onto the Other Shore and into the Divine Kingdom.
The remaining six rings only repeat the above three.
Each ring is worse than the last, and the innermost ring’s area, even the forest regions, are no longer suitable for the Human Race.
As for why the environment of the Cosmic Realm is so harsh...
It can only be said that the Cosmic Realm is not a spherical world but a gigantic nine-section-like Heavenly body. The gravitational pull and resistance to the Star Realm of such an entity are beyond your imagination in terms of inferiority.
How inferior is it?
It’s so inferior that the Cosmic Realm didn’t put up any protection or restrictions during the Celestial Profound Realm’s Descent, allowing cultivators from the Celestial Profound Realm to break in freely.
Second ring, Sea of Desolation.
On a small island with a hint of greenery, the space crack flashed four consecutive times.
Then, four individuals from the Celestial Profound Realm flew out from the space crack one after another.
Or perhaps they shouldn’t be called people, but rather four human-shaped blurred masses of flesh.
The masses of flesh landed on the sandy ground, taking about three to five minutes to gradually reform into human shapes.
"Pain, damn it, the pain! How did we get so unlucky to run into a time-space turbulence?"
"Is this the Cosmic Realm? It looks so desolate, wait, the Spiritual Qi concentration... is this a Forbidden Spirit Area?"
"No, if you sense carefully, there is some Spiritual Qi, but it’s too inert to mobilize... what the hell kind of place is this Cosmic Realm? Can cultivation really be done here?" The scar-faced man with a melon hammer looked around, then his attention was caught by some peculiar sight in the sky.
"Perhaps the space crack we took opened within some forbidden area of Cosmic?" guessed the slender male cultivator.
After a while, seeing no one respond, he couldn’t help but ask curiously, "What’s wrong with you all?"
"Look up."
Look up?
The slender man heard and looked up, then his jaw gradually dropped, his slitted eyes struggling to widen, as if he wanted to etch the scene before him into his mind.
"Is that... the Inverted Mountain?"
Above the sky of the Cosmic Realm, hundreds of large and small Inverted Mountains hung glaringly bright, and if one didn’t pay attention, they might think these were just ’stars from beyond,’ but with the eyesight of a Nirvana Realm cultivator, they could vaguely make out some details from this distance.
Hundreds of Inverted Mountains, surrounding the horizon... if this cylindrical ’mountain body’ extending upwards with blue-green hues could be called a horizon.
Cosmic Realm, a ’Nine-section Mountain Body’ drifting in the Star Realm, with its topmost section surrounded by hundreds of large and small ’Inverted Mountains’, could also be called ’Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands’ or ’Floating City’. In the way native life of the Cosmic Realm described it, in the distant ancient times, these odd celestial bodies were occupied by Ancient Gods in the Ancient God Kingdom.
A strange system.
A peculiar world.
On a ’mountain’, a sea could exist, and above the sea, a desert, and further above the desert, a green forest.
"This... the topography of Cosmic Realm is truly eye-opening. I’ve lived for over seven hundred years, and this is the first time witnessing such... terrain. Could it be a world pieced together by a Great Power of this realm?"
"Look down again," a female cultivator flying in the sky said to the others.
The slender male cultivator flew into the air upon hearing this.
Then.
"Holy crap, is that even possible?"
What did he see?
As mentioned earlier, the terrain of Cosmic Realm cycles between ’forest land’, ’desert’, and ’dead sea’. In this cyclical pattern, since the topmost section is a forest terrain, then naturally, supporting the entire Cosmic land at the lowest point is the most brutally challenging environment of Cosmic Realm, the ’Sea of Divine Punishment’!
This tri-layered mountain’s bottommost layer is shockingly a vast ocean region!
So here’s the question:
How can a desert float above the ocean, and how can this sea called Divine Punishment support the eight layers on top of it?
The key is, these eight layers above do not sink...
Silence.
The four Nirvana Realm cultivators were well-traveled, yet the Cosmic Realm’s ground-breaking landscape environment shattered their previous understanding.
"The vastness of the Star Sea is truly full of unfathomable wonders," the female cultivator in the sky breathed out and said to the other three in a peculiar tone.