"Is this the legendary Divine Court?" I asked the surprised-looking Hei Zi beside me. He nodded as well. "With this many realms joined together, it has to be. Oh, right—you're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask? Aren't you familiar with Bai Heavenly Official?"
"Familiar my ass?! Didn't you see the murderous look in her eyes?" I looked toward Bai Ruoqi. She happened to be looking over too, her gaze carrying a trace of anger, as if to say, You'd better know you were wrong this time.
Hei Zi shrank his head back, trying to keep as far away from me as possible. Offending an immortal the moment he arrived was not what he wanted. He had yet to reunite with his main body and was accepting an appointment summons in his capacity as a new god.
The jade tablet carried several thousand of us, sometimes soaring straight upward and sometimes moving slowly forward. Beside us, hazy realms revolved around us like ever-changing dreamlike bubbles. Of course, only with the Heavenly Eye could one barely see through the clouds. Under normal circumstances, they were nothing more than a hazy blur.
Later, we finally stopped moving. We then entered a place in the mist that looked almost like a dock and came to a halt.
"We're here. Get down." Though Bai Ruoqi was speaking to everyone, she was staring fixedly at me. I smiled and led everyone off the jade tablet, but when I saw the green mountains, clear waters, flowers, and grass all around us, I couldn't help feeling puzzled. "Huh? Why isn't there some imperial palace or something? Aren't you taking me to be questioned?"
As it turned out, people had come to receive us—quite a lot of them, in fact. But they all seemed to lack divine