Following the road due south from the "Town in the Clouds," Zhou Heng walked all the way to the edge of the clouds. There, he saw a small "cloud house" about three meters in size. It was not spacious. Beside the little "cloud house," a figure roughly one meter tall sat on a small stool with his back to him, fishing in the cloudsea with a rod in hand. Together with the narrow, elongated "cloud house" beside him, the scene somehow conveyed a sense of peace and serenity. Zhou Heng approached and looked at him from the front. Only then did he discover that this was not a child, but an old man whose white beard trailed along the ground. He was so old that even the backs of his hands were covered in wrinkles.
"Little one, you came from outside the 'Skysea of the Empty Realm,' didn't you? Interested in experiencing the joys of fishing? Here in the 'Skysea of the Empty Realm,' these are our happiest moments~" The old man turned toward Zhou Heng and smiled kindly.
Zhou Heng fell silent for a moment, then nodded. "All right. Sorry for the trouble, sir!"
The old man chuckled and pointed at the fishing rods beside the "cloud house," gesturing for Zhou Heng to take one himself. Once Zhou Heng fetched a rod and sat down beside him, the old man personally demonstrated how to fish in the "Skysea of the Empty Realm."
"Long, long ago, the great 'Bard' felt that justice had vanished from the world, so he casually created this 'cloudsea' and borrowed the authority of fishing from the great 'Old Man in a Straw Hat and Cape.' That was how the 'Skysea of the Empty Realm' of today came to be. Originally, the 'Skysea of the Empty