Coincidence

After traveling through White Cloud Heaven for some time, Wang Zhifan encountered all sorts of people. None seemed strong enough to be worth approaching, so he did not speak to them.

Some looked much like people from the Xia Kingdom on Earthstar. Others had distinctive features and barely resembled humans.

Some had wings of different colors on their backs. Some had a third eye between their brows. Others had heads growing from their bellies and nothing at all above their necks. The diversity of life across the Six Domains and Seven Realms was on full display.

Wang Zhifan felt he had traveled tens of thousands of miles, yet he still had not found the boundary of another region. He decided to ask someone for directions.

The armored giant from the Giant Spirit Realm was partly to blame. His knowledge of the local geography had been limited: he had never been anywhere outside White Cloud Heaven, so he could hardly have pointed Wang Zhifan in the right direction.

Wang Zhifan passed over a battered giant ship floating amid white clouds, then arrived above a lake roughly a hundred miles across. It hovered at an angle below the ship, an odd sight that no longer struck him as unusual.

He entered the lake's vicinity and extended his senses. Quite a few people occupied this small area. Some were fighting on the water, some were diving to retrieve things from the lakebed, and others were fishing at their leisure from little boats.

An old man fishing with a bamboo pole while seated on a rotten log soon caught Wang Zhifan's attention. The man's presence was much stronger than that of anyone else he had met along the way. Figuring he was an expert visiting White Cloud Heaven to relax, Wang Zhifan decided to