Chapter 728 - Gazing At The World

"Senior? Senior Xukong?" Lin Mu called out but received no answered.

He looked below and saw a massive sphere. Most of it was blue, but one third of it was made of different colors such as green, brown, yellow, white and red. Lin Mu noticed that the top of the sphere was white and looked like a pear.

"Huh… is this… my world?" Lin Mu wondered.

He checked the other points and was able to recognize several of them, such as the pear's waist and the belt. Then below he could see the northern Mountains and the northern forest.

This was enough to confirm for him.

"There's no doubt… this is my world." Lin Mu spoke..

And when he did, he could hear a voice in his mind. The voice was familiar to him and he had heard it before.

"Xiaofan World…" the voice spoke

"Huh… so the name of my world is Xiaofan…" Lin Mu muttered.

So far, he had never heard the actual name of his world and had not seen it anywhere either. Since the world had only one continent that was now named the great Zhou continent, the people also called it the Great Zhou world.

But Lin Mu now realized that it was just a name given by the people, but the real name of the world was something different. It was named Xiaofan. Lin Mu didn't know if it was written in the records somewhere, but he decided to check up on it later.

Lin Mu continued observing and could see the vast expanse of the forests that spread across the continent at the bottom of it.

"That… should be the part which was once the southern continent. So that is the Great Southern Forest." Lin Mu identified.

Above the Great Southern forest, he could see several areas that had small black and Grey dots.

"Hmm… those should be the cities, I guess, and seeing the location, it must be one of the kingdoms in the south. I think that is where the Noon Grass Sect is located as well." Lin Mu muttered.

On the northeast of that, he could see a small patch of dense red color. Lin Mu instantly recognized what this was.

"The Hong Lin forest!" Lin Mu said.

He then went west from there and saw several different areas, including one place which was densely packed with buildings. 

"Is that… the Imperial capital of the Great Zhou Empire? Yes, that must be it." Lin Mu spoke.

He went a bit north west from there and saw the deserts and volcanoes. This was also the area where the Fire Fang snake was supposed to be a native of. He continued further up from there and saw a change in the color.

The area here was significantly darker, and the ground seemed to be black in certain places.

"That should be the Black Dawn Dynasty." Lin Mu recognized.

Then to the east of it, Lin Mu saw the Shuang Qian Empire and further east of that Lin Mu saw the part of the continent that protruded a bit outwards and went to the north. 

The area here was multicolored, with different hues mixed in such as red, green, blue, yellow, pink and many more.

"That should be the Eastern Ming Dynasty." Lin Mu recognized.

He could also see several small dots in the great ocean that were sparsely spread. The biggest ones though, were closest to the continent and were none other than the Echo Conch kingdom and the First Sun kingdom.

As Lin Mu continued observing, he wondered where the sects were. He couldn't particularly see them.

"Hmm… from what I know the top sects are rather spread around. The Sky precepts sect is located somewhat east of the Imperial capital while the Zither wind sect is south west of it. Then, some distance south from the black dawn kingdom's border, there is the centennial sword sect.

The Rainbow Pill sect is the furthest from all sects and is the Eastern Ming dynasty. Then finally… there are the Northern tribes…" Lin Mu muttered.

He could see that within the frozen white northern part, there were small dots of red and black. He realized that they must be the settlements of the Northern tribes.

"If only I could see more…" Lin Mu wished.

~shua~

The moment he did so, he felt his vision flicker. Then red dots appeared all over the map. These dots were all of different sizes and intensities. Some of them were bright enough that they looked like beacons, while there were some that were dim enough that they couldn't even be seen unless Lin Mu squinted.

The ones that looked like beacons were located in four different parts of the world. One of the red beacons was near the black dawn kingdom, which Lin Mu recognized as the Centennial sword sect.

One of them was located in the central part of the continent that Lin Mu recognized to be the Sky Precepts sect. Then there was another one located in the north eastern part of the continent which Lin Mu recognized to be the rainbow pill sect.

"What are these red beacons? They are the strongest ones… seeing the pattern, they may be cultivators." Lin Mu wondered.

After thinking for a bit more, Lin Mu realized that this was likely.

"Considering the different intensities of the light and them being in a few locations, they might be Immortal Ascension realm cultivators. But then at the north… this can't be!" Lin Mu exclaimed.

What Lin Mu saw in the North was surprising to him. In the north, there were three such red beacons. One of them was a bit to the south in the mountains, while the other two were together in the populated area.

"If these really are immortal Ascension realm cultivators, then the Northern tribes have the same number as the rest of the empire. But how can this be? They should have all been killed in the past.

Unless… They are new…" Lin Mu understood the startling reality.