South of the Central Plains, along the banks of the Nanjiang River.
Overcast clouds stretched endlessly, and a torrential downpour fell.
The lands of Suzhou, once praised as a land of fish and rice, had been abandoned for nearly eighty years and become a primeval forest overrun with vegetation.
Clouds and mist churned, scattered by the wind and rain. A damp breeze swept over the sea of trees, stirring up the various miasmas that had pooled within, instantly bathing the entire jungle in a multitude of colors.
Faintly visible were countless plants and beasts that had never existed in this world before the appearance of the Divine Wood, breeding and moving within, transforming this land into a strange Otherworld.
A massive river surged forth like a dividing line cleaving heaven and earth. Amidst the pattering rain, it cut through this forest that resembled an Otherworld, flowing from the distant depths of the continent to the ocean at the edge of the horizon.
