Gengzi District No. 9 Sky-Piercing Tower, sixty-third floor, Chen Mu's room.
The white walls gave off a warm, lustrous glow. They were clearly not jade, but some kind of bone or living keratin.
The corners were smooth and rounded, not pieced together and piled up, but more like part of a single whole.
Chen Mu took a meditation cushion from the Five Ghosts Bag and placed it before the enormous floor-to-ceiling window. Sitting cross-legged, he looked down over the entire Water Mansion.
The crystalline glowing ceiling, the yellow-white Sky-Piercing Towers, the broad crisscrossing streets, the bustling crowds, and the streaks of light and all manner of Flying Kites that occasionally swept through the sky.
"What a marvelous world."
He watched a jade-green streak of light fly over his head, then shoot into the distant Golden Pearl Dao Field with a whoosh.
Chen Mu's face was full of envy. "Flying Kites can fly too, but compared to true flight techniques, they still fall a little short."
"One day, I'll fly on my own too!"
Filled with anticipation, Chen Mu called up the Gray Wall.
writing: 8521/10000/second tier; Painting: 5967/10000/2nd tier; Culinary: 8145/10000/fifth tier; Medicine Crafting: 7217/10000/5th tier; Five Ghosts Moving Mountains Incantation: 7136/10000/8th tier; Shape Shift Technique: 8372/10000/Tier 4; Planting: 6933/10000/Tier 3; Heart-Linking Incantation: 4502/10000/Tier 9; Fire Cloud Incantation: 4386/10000/second tier; Piloting: 6736/10000/first tier; Three Yin Slaying Demon Technique: 4228/10000/Tier 3; True Hearing Technique: 9006/10000/Tier 4; Five Elements Qi Absorption Method: 9181/10000/second tier;
"The Three Yin Slaying Demon Technique makes too much of a commotion. I can't practice it."
"Piloting requires going out to fly, so that's out too."
"If I control the temperature of the Fire Cloud Incantation a little, I might be able to practice it."
"I just don't know whether the Sky-Piercing Tower has equipment meant