1964 Spirit World 1 (1/2)

Spirit World.

As the name suggests, only spirits of the netherworld were able to set foot in there.

Of the Four Sides, only the Spirit World was difficult to go into.

When the Middle Realm fell into chaos, only this place remained peaceful, cut off from the rest of the realm in solidarity. Only the Dark Emperor had set foot inside the Spirit World and besides that, no other person alive had ever taken a single step within.

The Four Sides had never came out easily. Even the Nine Temples and the Twelve Palaces knew very little if anything of the Four Sides. In the Middle Realm, instead of saying that the Four Sides were four sets of powers they might very well be known as four legends. Few knew anything about them but lingered on in the minds of people, full of mystery and miraculous.

Everyone only knew that the Spirit World was one among the Four Sides but no one knew where the road leading to it was.

In the dim Spirit World, one did not see daylight, the brilliant did not shine, nor were there white fluffy clouds, and there was certainly no clear blue sky. The place was like a world in perpetual night, the sky dark but no stars could be seen.

There were strange houses, and the material they were built with could not be identified, which looked like crystal clear coloured glass that could however still block out one's sight. Green and orange lights littered the streets and at one glance, the place looked highly mystifying.

It was beautiful and dazzling to see.

The black skeleton steeds came treading upon deep red flames as they stirred up still dust, indiscernible dark strips of either flesh or leather hanging from every single one of the black bones on their ribcages. Blood red eyes filled with an untamable wildness numbering four in total, with two in front and two behind as they pulled the black horse carriage to weave through the wide street.

The carriage wheels trundled and turned, the bronze bells hanging from the roof of the carriage tinkling clearly.

Upon the street, if one looked carefully, one would be shocked beyond words.