She signed her name with a brush.
After registering with her Identity Jade Slip, she collected the document. This task could not be accepted by anyone without a Heavenly Court post. The immortal generals within the Heavenly Court had recently been busy exterminating the Devil Race; only the Female Guard Camp had returned to garrison the Heavenly Court after the war, and most of them had no interest in a task of fanning flames.
She tucked away an ordinary Spirit Pill, saving it for when hunger struck.
Leaving the mission hall, she shaded her eyes with a hand and looked up at the layer upon layer of floating immortal islands and heavenly palaces.
"So high..."
One could climb from the South Heavenly Gate along the Jade Steps, but Bai had no intention of counting steps. Taking a boat was faster and easier. The sooner she fanned the flames, the sooner she could take leave.
Holding the document, she boarded the vessel. The wooden boat was filled with immortal maidens, each as lovely as a warbler or swallow in her own way.
The small boat rose along the outer edge of the floating Jade Steps. The Heavenly Court's Floating Mountains were not level with one another, but stood at varying heights. Layers of golden cloud seas drifted between them. The higher they went, the more imposing and sacred the immortal palaces became. Whenever they passed a large Floating Island, the wooden boat briefly docked at some secluded pier, where immortal maidens, Lishi, and immortal officials came and went.
The stars drew ever closer. The vault of heaven overhead was strewn with twinkling stars, as though she could reach out and gather the moon or pluck the stars.
Lihentian.
Flying waterfalls hung high, giving rise to Auspicious Clouds, while gourd vines along