This abandoned planet wasn't desolate; there were still many mortal cities. Because cultivators rarely came here, it was peaceful. At this moment, the abandoned planet was filled with winter. Snowflakes fell from the sky and landed on the ground. Some of the villages were filled with children playing happily.
This day was an important festival on this planet. The origin of this festival had disappeared in the long river of history. By now, it had been forgotten by most people.
However, this custom was passed down unknowingly and became a habit.
Every household lit up their lights amidst the snow-filled sky. It was as if laughter could be heard from every place where there were people.
It was originally night, but under the illumination of the lights and the snowflakes, even though it couldn't compare to daytime, the silver light was still clearly visible.
A young man silently walked forward in the snow, leaving a trail of footprints on the ground. However, these footprints weren't deep and were soon filled up by the falling snow. Eventually, the footprints became fainter and fainter until all traces were swept away.
This young man was wearing white, and even his hair was white. Snow fell on his hair, and from afar, it was impossible to tell the snow from his hair … The howling cold wind blew some of the snow on the ground into the air. The snow seemed to want to blend with the snow before falling back down again, making it impossible to tell the new from the old.
The young man walked quietly as the snow on the ground blew. The snow under his feet was very thick, and when he stepped on it, there was a slight crunching sound. However, under the cold wind, the sound was blown far away and mixed with the snow.
In this cold winter, the young man's white shirt was very thin. He still wore a thin shirt and the shoes on his feet were also very thin. However, he didn't seem to be afraid of the cold. He silently faced the wind and the snow. With the melancholy in his heart and the bitterness of having to leave, he slowly walked into the depths of the plain before him.
The sharp northern wind contained the coldness and snow as if it wanted to stop the young man from leaving home on this festival. However, when the wind hit the young man's body, it fell apart powerlessly … In the dark night, in the wind and snow, there was no one around him. There was only the sound of the wind and the snow to send him off … After an unknown amount of time, the young man stopped. He couldn't see the ground around him at all; everything was covered in silver snow.
This was a plain.
"This is the place."
Wang Lin raised his head and looked at the dark sky calmly. The snowflakes fell before his eyes and covered the earth.
Shaking his head, Wang Lin shook off the snow on his hair. He took a deep breath and turned into a cloud of white mist that gradually dissipated in front of him.
He gently stepped on the ground with his right foot and a tremor immediately came from all directions. In an instant, all the snow within 10,000 feet turned into a silent storm. The snowflakes flew into the sky and were blown away by the wind.
Without the snow, a majestic array formation was revealed. This array formation was very complicated, and there were even pieces of rubble in many places.
After a moment of silence, Wang Lin let out a sigh and walked to the center of the array formation. His right hand made a grasping motion, and as the snowflakes drifted in front of him, a crack to his storage space appeared. Under his control, the stones he had found along the way flew out one by one and hovered in the air. There were hundreds of them.
Wang Lin waved his right hand, and the stones fell to the ground one by one and scattered in different places.
Suddenly, the array formation began to shine with light and slowly revolved, showing signs of opening. As the array began to operate, the snowflakes falling from the sky were pushed into the air by the power of the array formation before they could even get close to the array formation.
Wang Lin silently sat down cross-legged on the ground. His right hand reached into the crack to his storage space and took out a Nascent Divinity. The Nascent Divinity's eyes were closed, and it was unconscious.
Holding the Nascent Divinity, Wang Lin's left hand formed an incantation seal and he quickly tapped the Nascent Divinity several times. Every time he tapped it, the Nascent Divinity would tremble. Finally, Wang Lin waved his right hand, and the Nascent Divinity flew into the air. Its illusory body stretched out endlessly, twisting and turning into a vortex.
The vortex whistled, and there were even shrill cries echoing within it. At this moment, the formation on the ground was completely activated, and the rumbling replaced the wind, forming an extremely bright light. It did not shoot up into the sky, but all rushed into the vortex in midair.
Popping sounds echoed out as the vortex seemed to break through. Wang Lin raised his head, his hands formed an incantation seal, and he calmly said, "Use the soul as the guide!"
There was a flash of blood-colored light from the vortex. The moment Wang Lin's words echoed, the formation under Wang Lin seemed to have used up all of its power and collapsed into dust. Even the gravel turned to dust.
The vortex in the sky stopped rotating and flashed with an indeterminate light. It was completely dark inside, as if it was a tunnel.
Wang Lin stood up and stepped into the vortex. He looked back at the silver earth. Although this place was unfamiliar to him, he was breathing the air of the Alliance Star System. This place had the smell of home, the smell of friends, his reluctance to leave, and his story.
"I don't know when I'll be able to come back … Perhaps I'll never be able to come back … Fortunately, when I leave, I have the snow to send me off and the wind to accompany me … That's enough!"
Wang Lin bitterly withdrew his gaze and let out a laugh. He turned around and walked into the depths of the vortex. The vortex gradually disappeared without a trace.
The vortex on the abandoned planet also disappeared. Only the echoes of that laugh spread out and were suppressed by the snowflakes before slowly fusing with the world.
The empty space on the plain was gradually filled with snowflakes. Just like Wang Lin's footprints, all of them disappeared … The Wind, Cloud, Thunder, and Lightning Celestial Realms each had their own star system. The Rain Celestial Alliance had a rank 1 to 9 cultivation country. The Thunder Celestial Luo Tian had an ancient cultivation family. Their systems were different, which resulted in different cultivation methods, different cultivation directions, and even their personalities.
Compared to the strictness of the Alliance, the Luo Tian had more freedom. However, this freedom could be given up for the honor of the family!
Honor was more important than anything else!
The Wind Celestial Realm's Cloud Sea was completely different from the Rain and Thunder Celestial Realms … The Cloud Sea Star System was even larger than the Luo Tian Star System. It could even be said that among the four Celestial Realms, the Cloud Sea Star System was the largest.
At a glance, the star system wasn't completely dark, but it was covered in a thin layer of fog. This fog covered a large area of the Cloud Sea Star System, and even divine sense would be hindered by it.
Due to this fog that seemed to have existed for countless years, the Cloud Sea Star System didn't look like a star system, but like a sea of fog. This was where the name Cloud Sea came from.
Due to the unique star fog in the Cloud Sea, even powerful cultivators would get lost if they didn't have an accurate star map. They would be forever trapped inside the star system.
Even the Spatial Shrinking Technique would be severely disrupted by the starmist. Even though it was effective, it was not very effective.
No one knew the origin of this star fog. It was said that this star fog had existed before the Ancient Celestial Realm disappeared … It was different from Allheaven and the Alliance's east, west, and south domains. In the Cloud Sea, there was no such thing as north, south, east, and west. This was because the existence of this star fog made it difficult for cultivators to know where they were.
Similarly, the Cloud Sea didn't allow for north, south, east, and west directions. Due to the different density of the fog, the Cloud Sea was divided into nine ranks!
These nine ranks were actually nine irregular rings. The outermost was the first rank and the innermost was the ninth rank.
The continent of Mo Luo existed in the fifth rank of the Cloud Sea. In the dense fog, the continent of Mo Luo was faintly discernible. At the center of the continent was a towering black tower that gave off a gentle light that shrouded the entire continent. This made it so that the fog couldn't enter the continent, and some of it was scattered by the gentle light. This allowed the outside of the continent to become clear.
It wasn't that the Cloud Sea didn't have cultivation planets, but they were extremely rare. Most of them were concentrated in the rank 7 and above star systems, and there were less than 100 of them.
In the rank 7 and below star systems, the most common thing were the floating continents. These continents represented the various sects in the Cloud Sea.
In the northern part of the continent of Mo Luo, rain fell from the sky. This rain covered the world, and it had been raining for an unknown amount of time. The ground was covered in mud and the dense leaves were bent as if they couldn't lift their spines due to the pressure of the rain.
The rain formed lines that connected the edges of the leaves and fell to the ground.
The little beasts hid in the corner, silently shivering in the rain.
On the ground, there would occasionally be small, colorful snakes moving through the mud as if they were playing. This kind of rainy night was the perfect time for them to look for food.
This was a forest. In the rain, other than the sound of the rain and the flapping of leaves, there was no other sound. It was relatively quiet.
Thunder would occasionally flash across the sky, illuminating the land shrouded in darkness.
In the depths of the jungle, there was an open space about 1,000 feet wide. This place had been cleared by someone and a formation had been set up. The rain had washed away some of the dirt, making the formation very clear.
There were no cultivators around. The last group of cultivators guarding the formation had left three months ago. They had given up on the formation, but it wasn't destroyed. It was as if they still had a glimmer of hope.
Thunder flashed once more in the night and the earth lit up. Crackling sounds came from the formation, but this sound was completely drowned out by the rumbling thunder.
Blue light lit up the formation and gradually surrounded the formation. The rain in the sky seemed to speed up as if it knew that a person that didn't belong to the Cloud Sea, a cultivator that would rise in the Cloud Sea and shock the four Celestial Realms, was about to appear.
The rain became heavier and heavier … The Thunder increased in intensity.