The South Celestial Gate is very far.
Tianqi Village and those old acquaintances, even the avatar above the Sea of Suffering, are all very far.
So far that Song Yan feels like a wandering vagabond.
Fortunately, Purple Cloud Heaven, once the leader of the Nine Heavens, is not barren. It has many peculiar landscapes that, if you walk far enough and explore enough, you are bound to see.
Yet the scenery here is distinctly different compared to the Great Thousand Worlds.
In the Great Thousand Worlds, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth—the Five Elements—are independent.
For example, a tree is wood, and if wood encounters fire, it will only be burned to ashes, so trees must stay away from fire.
But Song Yan saw a forest of maple trees blazing fiercely, with Taiyang Fire flowing above them, yet the leaves remained unharmed; this is called "wood gives birth to fire but fire does not burn wood."
