Inspired by Wulingyuan, the stone forest of Zhangjiajie in Hunan. It covers the humid land of the Centre below its mountains: the mountains stay the Cloud Sea Peaks, the drier land the Peach Blossom Valley.

• One pillar to a cell of 21 blocks, a few cells left empty for a wider gorge or a clearing; 3.5 to 10 blocks across in radius, mostly slender, a few giants.
• Their tops follow the old plateau near height 168, so they rise 60 to 110 blocks above the gorges; one in four stands lower, more worn.
• Each is stepped along its bedding planes and fluted by rain: pale grey and white rock with rusty bands and dark streaks, grass on every ledge, vines down the walls.
• A pillar is whole or not there: none is cut off at the biome's edge, near a structure or on high ground.
• Few trees, so the rock shows: osmanthus and Huangshan pines on the tops and in the gorges, cliff pines growing from the walls.
• Blue mist that hides the far pillars one behind the other. Chickens, rabbits and parrots.