After walking a little farther, they passed a viewing platform with an excellent vantage point. Watching the sea of clouds and the occasional mountains and rivers—majestic sights in the lower realm, but now like models in a miniature landscape—streak past the porthole, Lin Daiyu seemed to remember something and softly asked Annie:
"Master, you once said your home was called Emerald Screen Mountain?"
"May I ask where in the Three Realms this immortal mountain is located?"
"And how far is it from here?"
She had always been curious about her mysterious master's origins. Since they had time now, she naturally wanted to ask her properly.
"Hm?"
(゜゜)?
Annie had been staring at a distant cloud shaped like a lump of poop. At the question, she turned her head and answered casually:
"Emerald Screen Mountain?"
(￣~￣) chew!
"Anyway, it's not in your world. It's in another world, very, very far away!"
She thought for a moment, trying to find an analogy they could understand.
"Hmm..."
"Even if this ship kept sailing for ten thousand years, or a hundred thousand years, it might still not get there. It's that far away!"
(^▽^)
"You're making that up!"
As soon as Annie finished speaking, Xueyan couldn't help muttering under her breath.
Though she revered Annie's abilities, those words were far beyond anything she could comprehend, so she added:
"This Cloud Palace Skyboat is an immortal treasure that can travel tens of thousands of li in a day!"
"Ten thousand years?"
"It could fly all the way to the Heavenly Pillar at the northernmost edge of the Northern Kuru Continent, a hundred million li away!"
"How could there be anywhere it couldn't reach?"
She felt she had caught Annie making an outrageous exaggeration and rebutted her with confidence.
"..."
Lin Daiyu also thought her