Puffy white clouds drifted across the sky, the breeze was gentle and the sun shone bright as the Iron Dragon flew leisurely through the heavens.
To provide a better view of the scenery from the sky, the Iron Dragon was moving slowly, at barely three hundred kilometers per hour.
Wearing sunglasses, Zhang Tie lounged on a comfortable recliner with his strong upper body bare, dressed only in a pair of loose shorts as though he were on holiday. He basked in the sun, sipped fruit juice, and watched Bai Suxian, clad in a swimsuit, swim happily through the more than one-hundred-square-meter pool atop the airship like a beautiful mermaid, her laughter ringing out in bursts.
Above the pool, the airship's movable metal armor and cover plates had automatically slid open, revealing a bright expanse formed of crystal grating. This upper-deck area of the Iron Dragon had become the finest viewing platform on the airship.
Even the largest airships had no swimming pools, but large flying vessels did. Looking at the pool before him, Zhang Tie could not help sighing over Great Xia's extravagance.
Because flying vessels traveled at high speed through the sky and performed all manner of maneuvers, the pool water was usually stored in activated water-storage tanks within the vessel. Only when needed was it released, and it could even be heated to a suitable temperature, allowing people to swim to their heart's content aboard the vessel.
By now, the Iron Dragon had left Central Province City five days ago. The gloom and storms of Dragon Creek Commandery in Central Province had long since been tossed beyond the ninth heaven by Zhang Tie.
To the Iron Dragon Sect disciples aboard the flying vessel, during the days Zhang Tie had disappeared, everyone had assumed their master was merely in