With his goal set, Xu Mu had no reason to waste time on this trip.
Before seeing Cynthia, he needed to collect the remaining fourteen Gym Badges. Time was tight and the task was daunting, so he headed straight for the Gyms to challenge them.
When Xu Mu arrived in Pingcheng, he gazed at its deep blue sky and took a breath of fresh air.
Phew!
"Pingcheng really does deserve to be called Sky City. The sky here is bluer than in Fengcheng."
Xu Mu tilted his head back, then paused at the thought.
Then again, it was the same sky everywhere. What had changed was how he felt.
Perhaps setting out again was a breath of fresh air for Xu Mu.
He had never liked being tied down. School was only part of it; more importantly, he had spent all this time waiting to learn his fate.
He had no idea whether his father had stepped in, but the problem was settled now.
Xu Mu was finally free of his restraints. The Demon King had returned!
"Young man, is this your first time in Pingcheng?"
As Xu Mu gazed at the sky, an elderly man walked up and asked him with a smile.
He was clearly a longtime resident of Pingcheng.
"Yes, it's my first time here."
As an upstanding young man, Xu Mu decided to answer the old man's friendly approach in kind.
The old man kept smiling. His beard hid any real change in his expression.
"Let me tell you, young man, our sky is something special!"
"Every visitor or Trainer like you who comes here spends ages looking up at it."
Once the old man started talking, he couldn't seem to stop.
Xu Mu felt too awkward to interrupt, so he listened as the man went