The Skyship flew slowly toward the Divine Capital. The ground beyond the window receded, and everything on it grew smaller, much like riding a spacecraft in his previous life.
A spacecraft took off faster and more smoothly, though. And besides... most people went straight to the VR entertainment room after boarding. They never bothered looking at the scenery outside.
It was not as if they were flying from Earth to Mars. What was there to care about on a perfectly ordinary, extremely short trip?
Besides, Pan Long could fly himself now. He was thoroughly familiar with "taking to the skies."
He stopped watching the view and turned to discussing martial arts with Cang Yuan.
Though his cultivation far surpassed Cang Yuan's, as the saying went, "Stones from another mountain can polish jade." Cang Yuan had, after all, cultivated his family's martial art to the very end of the Innate realm, falling just short of Return to the Natural State. Their insights could illuminate each other's, and Pan Long found the discussion unexpectedly enlightening.
Cang Yuan's martial art was called Frostwind Fist, and its origins were well known. Near the end of the Warring States era, a swordswoman had lamented the sorrow of life and the coldness of the world in a poem: "Sixty years of life, and wind and frost fall upon me from head to toe." She later became a True Person, lived into the Great Xia Dynasty, and founded an organization called the Frostwind Poetry Society.
An ancestor of the Cang Family had been among the Frostwind Poetry Society's first students. Gifted as he was, he incorporated Frostwind Sword Intent into fist techniques and created Frostwind Fist.
Generation after generation, the Cang Family had refined Frostwind Fist, developing it into a rich and complete martial art. In theory,