The gentle breeze carried the land's unique warmth as it softly brushed across Li Ya's delicate brows and eyes, making her hold her breath unconsciously.
Held by Lin Ya as they hovered in midair, Li Ya's clear, crystalline eyes widened round as she stared fixedly at the enormous city gradually emerging in the distance. She was completely stunned.
In her ninety thousand years of life, all she had ever seen were the boundless deep-blue waters, swaying deep-sea corals, schools of fish, and the unchanging icy crystal palaces beneath the sea.
Cold seawater, the silent deep sea, and scenery that never changed—this had been her entire world since childhood.
But everything before her was something she had never seen in the deep sea, something she had never even imagined.
"Th-That is...?"
Li Ya stretched out a fair, slender finger and pointed in wonder at the towering buildings scattered across the distance. Those structures reached into the clouds, pure white or adorned with gilded accents. Layer upon layer, they stood grand and magnificent. Unlike the cold, monotonous palaces beneath the sea, they possessed the vibrancy and prosperity unique to the human world.
Faint streams of light flickered between the buildings. Looking closer, she saw countless humans flying back and forth on wings of Soul Power and flying Soul Tools, like birds dancing through the skies above land.
Lin Ya slowed down and stayed at her side as he calmly explained, "That is a human city. It is where people live."
As soon as he finished speaking, the two of them gently landed on the road outside the city.
The instant her feet touched the solid, warm stone pavement, Li Ya's entire body tensed. She unconsciously rose onto her toes, curiously and awkwardly feeling the sensation of land beneath her feet.
The ground