The seventh floor, the highest floor of the Viewing River Tower.
The scenery stretched into the distance, and the sky opened wide as far as the eye could see. Merely stepping up here cleared the mind and lifted the spirit.
There were no servants waiting here. At the Viewing River Tower, access to each floor depended on status. Those below Profound Connection and powerful mortals, for instance, could only dine on the bottom three floors, while those in the Three Heavens Realms drank on the upper three. The seventh and highest floor was reserved for Golden Core Upper Cultivators.
Hou Niao was qualified to linger on the sixth floor, so climbing just one floor higher hardly seemed excessive, did it?
The seventh floor was not particularly spacious. It held only four private rooms, named Wind, Cloud, Heaven, and Earth. Before he could approach the Wind Room, Divine Sense had already reached out from within.
"Come in."
Hou Niao respectfully lifted the curtain and entered. A Daoist with refined features came into view, watching him quietly. "A Sword Cultivator from Shanmen? Did Yu Zhengxing send you?"
Hou Niao nodded. "Hou Niao of Shanmen pays his respects, Senior Lin."
Lin Xiashi smiled. "No hurry. First, tell me about the shelterbelt over in Ancient Loulan."
Hou Niao had come prepared. He took out a viewing stone containing an overview of the forest belt that Yu Zhengxing had specially recorded from a low-flying aerial perspective. Viewed from this angle, the thousand-li shelterbelt was magnificent. It was hard to imagine that cultivators like them had planted it from nothing in just over a year.
Lin Xiashi watched very carefully, murmuring, "...Fellow Daoist Yu actually established over a thousand li of forest belt. How many resources must that have taken? And then there's the maintenance afterward.