Little Jade left the barrier surrounding Poseidon.
She flew straight out the window.
Jiang Yu sat on a high-backed chair balanced on its two back legs, perfectly steady and upright. She even had a hand free to leaf through the spellbook she held, looking every bit like a seasoned acrobat.
The Sky Monitoring Instrument projected a large screen before everyone, showing Little Jade plummeting toward the ground. The moment she broke through the Void Color "region" on the surface and entered the Void Cavity, Jiang Yu's chair would tip backward.
For now, the Magic Array was helping the two synchronize their movements.
"...
"I've always thought this forced-exit method was bizarre."
At some point, Dylan had moved from beneath the ceiling into the hall. He hung in midair with his arms folded, watching the images flash across the screen upside down, bafflement written all over his face. "How long does it take for a chair to tip backward and hit the floor? A second? A second and a half? Two seconds at most. Is that even enough time to finish a thought? Yet those soul-magic experiments can be completed in that time. Some wizards even live out an entire lifetime in another world!"
"You said it yourself: another world. What's so strange about time flowing differently in two worlds?"
Without changing shape, Fatty Xin reached out a blue arm and hauled the Vampire Werewolf down. "Besides, don't hang under the ceiling. You might interfere with the Magic Array below—"
Dylan took the advice at once.
He landed obediently on the floor.
Jiang Yu had closed her eyes. Her hands rested on the armrests, and the spellbook she had been reading lay open across her knees. Its pages bore the incantation "Ba Wan Qiang Qiang, Imperial Corpse Rises." It had originally