Heavy snow obscured the sky and blotted out the sun, leaving the world a vast expanse of white.

Sun Wukong took the dim Jade Seal out from the iceberg.

"How is it?"

Immortal Zhenyuan stepped forward and asked, "Is the Jade Seal useful?"

"It won't work."

Sun Wukong shook his head: "It's already broken."

This was a world that had been destroyed.

There was nothing in this world, only boundless ice and snow.

After arriving in this world, Sun Wukong and his companions had not found a single living creature—not even a plant.

Though he obtained the Jade Seal, there was nothing he could do with it; he couldn't even open the path to the Huabiao.

"Let's go."

Sun Wukong led the others away, his heart heavy.

They passed through several worlds, without discovering any surviving creatures.

Chaos reigned in deadly silence; everything in the Brahma Void Heavenly Court seemed to have been destroyed.

Walking through one desolated world after another, the group became somewhat silent.

To dispel the mood, Immortal Zhenyuan started chatting with two Taoists.

These two Taoists were raised by their master from childhood, who named them; both had the last name Fan, one named Ming, and the other, Nan... combined, they were Nan Ming.

"What does 'Nan Ming' mean?"

Immortal Zhenyuan asked curiously.

"Nanming Leaving Fire."

Fan Ming replied: "Our master named us this, hoping we would inherit the Tao Skill of Heavenly Venerate Nan Ming."

He told Immortal Zhenyuan that Heavenly Venerate Nan Ming was the spirit of Nanming Leaving Fire.

As for what Nanming Leaving Fire was, Fan Ming did not elaborate.

As they talked, they rode on Sun Wukong's shoulders, passing through one world after another.

After passing through more than a dozen destroyed worlds, they saw a ray of light in the Chaos.

The light was brilliantly dazzling, illuminating a part of the Chaos.

"The sun."

The Heavenly Dog exclaimed with joy: "That must be the sun."

With the sun, there would be living creatures.

That was a world that had not been destroyed.

The party hurried over.

After a while, they entered a vast blue world.

Immortal Zhenyuan stood on Sun Wukong's shoulder, looking out to the end of the sea, where water merged with the sky.

"What a vast sea!"

This was his first time seeing such a vast sea, truly boundless.

Sun Wukong sped across the sea, his golden fur lifted by the wind, flying for the length of several incense sticks' burning time, yet still no land in sight.

Immortal Zhenyuan furrowed his brows and said, "It seems like there is no land here."

"No."

Sun Wukong looked up at the sky: "We should be close."

He saw some colorful bird heads, with white beaks and red talons.

Where there were birds, there must be land.

Following the direction from which the birds flew, Sun Wukong found an island surrounded by a storm.

Dozens of whirlpools of various sizes encircled the island, linking together, resonating and colliding with the lightning in the storm, creating intense explosions that astonished everyone.

"Those birds really have it tough."

Immortal Zhenyuan remarked.

Sun Wukong nodded slightly and as he looked ahead, he saw a flock of Colorful Birds struck by lightning and fallen into the whirlpools.

He released a gust of Immortal Wind, trying to rescue the Colorful Birds.

However, as the Immortal Wind lifted the Colorful Birds, some dark shadows burst from the sea bottom, trying to drag them back into the whirlpools.

Sun Wukong slightly frowned and swung his palm.

"Boom!"

The water was pierced through, the dark shadows couldn't dodge in time, all were trapped beneath the giant hand, bursting apart.

"Puff," "puff"...

Accompanied by splashes of blood, Immortal Zhenyuan saw those burst shadows were actually flying rats.

"I have seen these mice!"

He frowned: "They can even swim."

These flying mice were the same ones he had once defended against in the Asura Realm.

Sun Wukong struck with several more palms, eradicating all the flying mice at the bottom of the sea.

The two Taoists were surprised in their hearts; Sun Wukong indeed treated his enemies with ferocity and few words.

"Let's go."

After clearing the flying mice, Sun Wukong withdrew his hands and flew toward the island.

As they approached the island, a whirlpool beside the island suddenly boiled over, and a wave rose from the sea, attacking Sun Wukong.

Just then, some Colorful Birds dropped glowing pebbles into the waves, and the waves immediately receded.

"What kind of pebbles are these birds holding?"

Immortal Zhenyuan picked up a pebble.

By the time Sun Wukong reached the shore, he had understood.

"Brother, these pebbles possess the mana to pacify the seawater."

He said.

"I understand."

Sun Wukong looked ahead at the island, the entire island was bare, covered everywhere with these pebbles.

Countless Colorful Birds flew in from outside, landing on the island, then flew toward the sea with pebbles in their beaks.

"This island and these birds are all very peculiar."

Immortal Zhenyuan descended from his shoulder and said, "We need to ask someone about this."

"I'm afraid there's no one here."

Sun Wukong replied: "This is West Mountain, though there is some vegetation, there are no flowers or fruit, no living creatures."

Immortal Zhenyuan was taken aback: "How do you know so precisely?"

Sun Wukong pointed to a monument among the chaotic rocks.

The monument bore the words he spoke.

Immortal Zhenyuan went up to touch the monument: "Who erected this monument?"

"Mountain God or the land."

Sun Wukong answered: "I can sense the immortal power within it."

He reached out to the monument, and it immediately burst, ejecting a wooden token.

This was the Mountain God token.

Sun Wukong grabbed it.

"Eh?"

Sun Wukong suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "Has the Mountain God token become sentient?"

The Mountain God token immediately trembled.

"Heavenly Immortal, spare my life."

A voice came from within the token: "I am merely a wooden token, granted Essence Blood from Emperor Yan, cultivated to become sentient, not a true Mountain God."

Sun Wukong looked curiously at the Mountain God token.

Of course, he would not do anything to the Mountain God token but merely asked about some things regarding this world.

"This place is a Star Palace of the Brahma Void Heavenly Court, governed by the Northern Black Tortoise, the Seventh of the Mansions of Xu."

The Mountain God token said: "It may also be the only remaining Star Palace of the Mansion of Xu."

It told Sun Wukong that the Mansion of Xu had ten Star Palaces, each an independent world, and now only one remained, which could be destroyed at any moment.

"Originally ruling over this Star Palace was Emperor Yan."

The Mountain God token said.

Emperor Yan was a Heavenly God who fell in the war against the Venerables in the Heavenly Court.

The Venerables wanted to engulf the Seventh of the Mansions of Xu with seawater, Emperor Yan exerted all his strength to suppress the sea—yet to no avail, and after his death, a portion of his Essence Blood transformed into this island.

Thus, the pebbles on this island all contain the power of Emperor Yan, serving to pacify the great sea.

"What about these birds?"

Immortal Zhenyuan asked curiously: "What's the deal with them?"

"They are Jingwei Birds."

The Mountain God token said: "They are the descendants of Emperor Yan's youngest daughter."

The original Jingwei Bird was transformed from Emperor Yan's youngest daughter.

When the Heavenly Court was destroyed, Emperor Yan sacrificed himself, and his youngest daughter was also affected by the battle, falling into the sea and drowning.

After her death, she became a Jingwei Bird, flying and calling between the great sea and West Mountain, carrying pebbles and twigs, intending to complete the work that Emperor Yan left unfinished, to suppress the sea.

However, the power of the Jingwei Birds was too weak.

After tens of thousands of years, almost all the land in this world had been submerged by the sea.

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