After finishing Cloud Climbing,
Lu Mingyuan spent another half hour or so and finally figured out Cloud Riding and Mist Driving completely.
First, Cloud Riding and Mist Driving was a continuously draining divine ability. After summoning a cloud, he had to keep channeling Spiritual Qi into the divine ability's phantom to control its movement or maintain its current state, such as hovering.
Once, the cloud had been floating freely through the air when Lu Mingyuan suddenly cut off the Spiritual Qi supply. It was like a plane running out of fuel: it began to plummet.
In the end, he realized that whether he wanted to fly or drift, the Spiritual Qi supply couldn't be interrupted. Otherwise, the white cloud mount would lose its supernatural abilities and obey the laws of physics completely. It would fall freely and slow down against the wind.
Lu Mingyuan had also made new discoveries about how to control the Cloud Riding and Mist Driving divine ability.
According to the instructions, the ability had six functions: antigravity, acceleration, deceleration, turning, maintaining, and reshaping.
But Lu Mingyuan's experiments showed that antigravity simply applied an upward force to the cloud.
The strength of that force depended on how quickly he channeled Spiritual Qi into the antigravity function.
In other words, the faster the Spiritual Qi flowed in, the greater the antigravity force.
And the length of time he channeled Spiritual Qi for determined how long that force lasted.
Based on this, Lu Mingyuan could now freely control the cloud's vertical movement, including accelerating and decelerating as it rose or fell.
The same principle applied to acceleration, deceleration, and turning: those three functions controlled the forces acting on the cloud horizontally.
Naturally, if it was acted on by forces in both the horizontal and vertical directions at once, the