Chapter 223

"Where?" Caesar stared blankly at Lu Mingfei. "Where did you say this is?" "He said this is Takamagahara, though we should have guessed it much earlier," Chu Zihang said in a deep voice. "In Japanese mythology, Takamagahara is the city of the Amatsukami ruled by Amaterasu. Unlike the eight continents of the mortal world, Takamagahara is described as 'an island that sometimes floated on the sea and sometimes floated in the clouds,' much like legendary Atlantis. It was plunged to the bottom of the sea in ancient times, supposedly because of a rebellion by the gods." "Yet far fewer people have searched for Takamagahara in history than for Atlantis, because most people consider it a mythological realm. Every scholar has assumed Takamagahara was merely a world of Japanese imagination."