Mili Heaven was bright and sunny, the sky clear and azure.
A cloud mass five or six li across drifted slowly through the sky.
A strong wind blew, sending ripples through the white clouds around it, yet they remained gathered and never dispersed.
Passing through the mist, the view suddenly opened up to reveal an enormous space within.
An Apricot Yellow Banner floated in the air, streams of white cloud mist flying out from within it and dispersing into the surrounding cloud mass.
Beneath the banner, tents and wooden cabins of every kind were densely packed together.
At one corner along the edge, a green jade snail shell two men tall was hidden among the many tents.
Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair at the entrance to the snail shell, staring blankly at the great banner in the sky through the open doorway.
"A single white cloud, like level ground, can not only carry tens of thousands of people, but also fly at great speed."
"What a remarkable method!"
That great banner was called the Five Directions Banner, a Magic Artifact forged by the Yellow Springs Sect. The enormous cloud mass beneath his feet was one of the Five Directions Banner's wondrous uses.
Though he had already spent more than ten days atop this cloud mass, he still could not help marveling at it.
"I wonder where Yuan Zhen, Tang Zhimu, and the others went. Could they also be riding a Five Directions Banner to some other place?"
After they had left the shores of Yizhou and arrived in Mili Heaven, everyone had been assigned elsewhere as soon as they settled in.
Yuan Zhen, Tang Zhimu, and the other Yellow Springs Sect disciples had long since received their arrangements, while Dao Soldiers like Chen Mu each had places to