It was already afternoon when the two of them flew above Blue Sky City.
Rather than entering through the gates, Lan Tian brought Shui Hanyi straight down from high above toward Blue Silver Castle in the city center.
The concealing layer of the Blue Silver God Domain masked their auras, and no one in the city noticed anyone passing overhead.
Held in his arms, Shui Hanyi looked down as the city beneath her grew larger in her view. The vast green medicine fields and neatly arranged houses resembled a scroll painting slowly unfurling.
They landed on the terrace on the top floor of Blue Silver Castle.
After Lan Tian released her, Shui Hanyi stood where she was and looked down. All of Blue Sky City spread out beneath the afternoon sunlight. Ten thousand mu of medicine fields formed an unbroken sea of green in the eastern district, the medicinal herbs' leaves rising and falling in the breeze like green waves. Workers bent over their tasks, their figures scattered among the rows.
Warehouses and freight transfer stations stood in neat rows in the northern district, with several flatbed carts being loaded and unloaded at their entrances.
In the western district's training grounds, the City Defense Army was drilling, its synchronized battle cries faintly audible.
A light aroma of wine drifted from the Medicinal Wine Workshop in the southern district, mingling with the sweet and bitter scents of medicinal herbs.
People crowded Main Street, with carts and horses weaving to and fro, painting a scene brimming with life.
Shui Hanyi rested her hands on the railing and watched for a long while, the outline of the entire city reflected in her ice-blue eyes.
She had seen many cities, and Skywater City was renowned for its refinement and elegance, but Blue Sky City's