A palace drifted through the sky.
From a distance,
it looked more like a ship suspended in midair.
There were two people aboard.
Li Bai was the captain.
Xu Yuan had nothing to do.
Two days earlier, Xu Yuan had patrolled the palace with his hand on his sword, keeping a wary eye on the Void outside.
Two days later,
he had set up a lounge chair in the square before the Grand Hall. He lay there wearing sunglasses, a glass of iced cola in hand.
"How much longer?"
he called.
Li Bai's voice came from inside the Grand Hall:
"One hour—another hour and we'll reach the boundary between Biluotian Heaven and the Bright Cloud Heaven Realm!"
"All right. I'll cook. Food in ten minutes!" Xu Yuan said.
"Good!" Li Bai replied.
Xu Yuan drained his drink, stood, and pulled out a huge iron pot.
He rinsed it with water, gathered a flame with the Five-Element Fire Art, set the pot over it, and began tearing open packets of instant noodles.
The palace's flying Magic Array was too complicated, and Li Bai wasn't skilled at using it. This was as fast as he could fly.
Xu Yuan couldn't make sense of the flying Magic Array at all.
That was how they had ended up like this.
All they could do was fly slowly toward the second Heavenly Realm.
The noodles were soon ready.
"Food's ready!" Xu Yuan called.
They each took a bowl, picked noodles from the pot, and ladled in some broth.
"What's in the Bright Cloud Heaven Realm?"
Xu Yuan asked curiously.
"The kings and generals who saved the Common People in the Mortal World, the great benefactors who did good every day, and ordinary people of great Merit are reborn in the Heavenly Realm after death. That's