The Flying Car glided quietly through the sky. Outside the window, white clouds changed shape as the angle shifted, and flocks of birds came into view now and then.
Chen Shu sat alone in the car, sipping milk tea as he gazed into the distance.
Gradually—
Not far away, a colossal shape emerged from the haze.
Chen Shu could not help widening his eyes.
It was a vast landmass floating in the sky, its size beyond imagining. Nothing humanity had ever built to fly, not even an Aerospace Carrier, was worth mentioning beside it. When it passed overhead, its shadow would blanket the sprawling earth, while the banks of white clouds were no more than ornaments drifting around it.
And this Flying Car was smaller than a sesame seed beside it.
Chen Shu kept his eyes fixed on it.
Towns stood on the landmass, and a natural protective barrier shimmered around its outer edge in the sunlight.
This was the Floating Island where the Celestials had once lived, the place people in many ancient countries had called the "Heavenly Realm" or the "Divine Realm." It was an enormous island that floated naturally and orbited Earth. The Celestials had not made it fly; they had merely been the first to discover and board it. In fact, Yi Nation had yet to disclose what powered its flight.
Now it belonged to Yi Nation: a colossal mobile military fortress with a permanent garrison of over two hundred thousand, more than a thousand fighter aircraft of various kinds, and enough military force to kill any Ninth-Tier Cultivator or destroy any ordinary major nation.
Its name: the Heavenly Palace.
It had returned for the New Emperor's accession ceremony.
The Flying Car gradually slipped beneath it.
The fierce air currents shook the Flying Car violently.
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