It was the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the Ghost Festival.
Chen Shu hovered in the Small Courtyard.
The Cloud-Sky Art was far superior to the simplest, most primitive Spirit Repulsion Spell. Using it now, Chen Shu could even manage short-distance flight.
Generally speaking, ancient Cultivators had to reach the Seventh Tier before they could fly. A few outstanding practitioners of traditional Sword Cultivation could use the Spirit Swords they had nurtured to do so at the Sixth Tier. King Court Sword Cultivation was closer to Martial Cultivation; its practitioners did not nurture Spirit Swords.
In modern times, most Cultivators could unlock flight at the Sixth Tier using only their own Spirit Power, without any external aid.
Depending on their talent and the quality of their flight Spell, some could unlock it as soon as they entered the Sixth Tier, while others had to wait until its later stages or even its peak. The most important factor was the quality of their Spirit Power; the Spirit Repulsion Spell demanded an exceptionally high standard.
Chen Shu was at the peak of the Fifth Tier. His Spirit Sea's overall capabilities far surpassed those of every ordinary peak Fifth Tier Cultivator alive, but he had not yet reached the Sixth Tier.
For an ordinary Cultivator, the leap from the peak of the Fifth Tier to the Sixth Tier was enormous. He was somewhere in the middle of that leap.
Thanks to the excellence of the Cloud-Sky Art, he could just barely count himself as having unlocked flight.
He could rise straight off level ground and cross forests and mountains.
Unfortunately, his range was pitiful. With no wind, flying over level ground, he could probably manage only fifteen or twenty kilometers.
And that was pushing it.
Chen Shu had not calculated the exact