Two days later.
A silver-white sword gleam slowly came to a halt amid the clouds.
"This is... Nagano?"
Gu Xiao Man sat cross-legged atop Gu Shen's Sword of Truth. She was several hundred meters above the ground, looking down at the square-shaped ancient city. She could sense both its rich historical aura and the ethereal detachment drifting through the clouds.
"Yes, this is Nagano."
Gu Shen smiled and glanced at Gu Xiao Man.
This was the Nagano she had always longed to see from afar.
"Let's hurry down already. What are we waiting for?"
Gu Xiao Man's eyes shone as she spoke impatiently.
"Don't rush."
Gu Shen said leisurely, "Look around you, then look up there..."
Gu Xiao Man raised her head and saw countless black mechanical vertical pupils concealed among the clouds in formations.
"What are those?"
Xiao Man had seen the Sky Eyes deployed by the Deep Sea, but these mechanical vertical pupils were higher and better hidden than Sky Eyes. If Gu Shen had not pointed them out, she would not even have noticed these watchers.
"These are Nagano's unique 'eyes.' They're called Wind Child."
Gu Shen smiled. "Wind Child captures everything within Nagano's sight. You can think of them as cloud mirrors created by the people of Nagano themselves."
Gu Xiao Man grew somewhat nervous. "Doesn't that mean we're in danger right now?"
This was exactly the question Gu Shen had been waiting for.
"Not dangerous. With your sister-in-law here, there's no danger."
Sister-in-law?!
Gu Xiao Man was completely bewildered.
Standing atop the iron sword, Gu Shen calmly sent a mental message to Chu Ling... Countless Wind Child units immediately stopped blinking in unison. In truth, the images captured by Wind Child had already undergone some processing by Chu Ling. This display was merely for Xiao