In the distance, the snow mountains, with their peaks and glaciers, seemed built amidst the Cloud Sea, snaking and sprawling over the earth like a slumbering ice dragon coiled here.
The snow mountains were shrouded in clouds and mist, with one side never seeing sunlight all year round, except in summer, when the gods would grant the side closest to the heavens a hundred meters of the most brilliant sunlight.
Legend has it that the Heart-Clearing Four-Leaf Fruit is hidden deep within an icy cave, cold and deep, yet occasionally touched by a ray of sunlight.
Dark shadows covered the raging wind and snow, and even as night turned to morning, the bleakness, viscosity, and chill in the swirling storm did not dissipate.
In the wind and snow, ice crystals whirled like sharp sword blades, cutting through the air with a piercing sound masked by the howling.
