[Crimson Mist City, on the deck of a steam airship]
It was winter, and the chilly wind, carrying grains of snow, swept across the people on the deck of the steam airship.
As Danica pushed open the cabin door leading to the airship's deck, a gust of cold wind immediately rushed in, burrowing straight into her collar.
She instantly pulled in her neck, rubbing her arms quickly. Her little face was flushed red from the cold, and even her voice was trembling.
"L-Liuli-jiejie (Elder sister)! It's so cold here! Let's go back, the view looks the same from the window!"
Faced with the extreme cold at an altitude of ten thousand meters, at a temperature unknown how far below zero.
Danica was the first to consider retreating.
While Jing Liuli was not much better off than her, she still stood her ground, straightening her back, deliberately raising her voice and stubbornly insisting, "Go back? If we go back now, won't that guy Tendo laugh at us?"
"I just said that a mere cold wind can't possibly defeat me, the mighty, contemporary strongest Third-Level Perfect Awakened Dream Star Envoy of the Frost Tone Family."
"..."
Listening to Jing Liuli's long string of self-introduction, Danica suddenly felt a little regretful.
Honestly, she shouldn't have believed Jing Liuli's nonsense and agreed to come to the deck with her to see the so-called scenery.
Because she found that even though she was the child, the one who needed to be taken care of was Jing Liuli, who was much older than her!
However, before Danica could figure out how to persuade Jing Liuli to go back, Jing Liuli directly pulled Danica out, giving her no chance to shrink away.
Fortunately, Jing Liuli wasn't entirely boasting.
After arriving on the deck, Jing Liuli suddenly closed her eyes.
The next second, a small, palm-sized sun with a cartoon art style appeared above her head.
The little sun was perfectly round and had a faint fuzzy edge, looking exactly like a fairy-tale creation that only appears in a child's dream.
Undoubtedly, this little sun was a special dream creation that Jing Liuli had created using her Star Source - Daydream.
"Wow!"
Seeing this cartoon-style little sun, Danica's eyes lit up. She immediately gathered under the little sun, extending her little hand, red from the cold, and began to warm herself.
Looking at Danica's inexperienced expression, Jing Liuli proudly raised her chin, then secretly glanced towards the direction of the dining room.
Sure enough, Tendo, who was secretly watching them, raised an eyebrow, picked up his hot cocoa, and turned back inside.
Seeing this, Jing Liuli's little expression became even more triumphant.
It was as if she was saying, "I am just that amazing."
But before Jing Liuli could be proud for too long, another gust of cold wind blew.
Making her shiver, she immediately hid in the warm yellow light shield projected by her 'little sun'.
The cold snowflakes that fell on the light shield quickly turned into small water droplets, which then dripped down the edge of the light shield.
Danica curiously reached out and touched the light shield, unable to help but say, "Liuli-jiejie, let's build a snowman. I've never built a snowman bigger than me!"
Jing Liuli's eyes lit up, and she immediately replied, "Good idea! And we're not just going to build one, we're going to build the biggest one!"
"Yay!"
Danica instantly forgot the cold, her little face filled with excitement.
While these two childish spirits were discussing the details of building a snowman, they completely failed to notice Mei Ling standing at the cabin door.
She was holding a thick jacket, shook her head helplessly, walked over, draped the jacket over Jing Liuli's shoulders, and helped her zip it up.
"Miss, don't just focus on playing. The wind is so strong, be careful not to catch a cold."
"Madam Liu has brewed ginger tea inside. You should come back with me and have some to warm yourselves up."
"Ah?"
Seeing Mei Ling's serious expression, which seemed to be advice but was actually non-negotiable.
Jing Liuli ultimately chose to compromise.
"O-Okay."
Just as Jing Liuli walked a couple of steps, she unexpectedly found that Danica had not followed, and immediately went over and picked the girl up.
"No, Liuli-jiejie, Aunt Liu and Aunt Mei called you back, not me. Why won't you let me play here?"
"Play what? This is the age when you should be studying. How can you indulge in play? Come back with me."
"Ah?!"
Ignoring Danica's bitter face, Jing Liuli directly carried her back to the airship cabin.
Inside the room, seeing Jing Liuli and Danica enter, Liu Yao on the sofa smiled and beckoned.
"Come here, it's freshly brewed. I added a little brown sugar to ward off the cold."
Not far from the room, Tendo and Caroline were sitting near the window, leisurely looking outside.
In the view, a massive continent, seemingly floating on a sea of clouds, appeared in their sight.
Contrary to what the dimensional viewers might have thought, although 'Heavenly Martial Capital' sounded like just a city, it was actually so large that its area was almost that of a small continent.
And within this vast city, there were hundreds of towering spires distributed in a well-ordered manner everywhere.
Some of these spires had dark grey rock bodies, their surfaces engraved with dense symbols of martial arts schools.
Some were silver-white metal, gleaming coldly in the sunlight.
However, among these hundreds of spires, the central spire, which soared into the clouds, was the most conspicuous.
Not only was its body bronze-colored, but its surface was also carved with complex patterns of various exotic beasts and rare treasures.
And at the end of these patterns was a huge arena, named—the Heavenly Martial Arts Arena.
This was the key venue for Stars Season 3's Star Glare.
Under the sunlight, the bronze-colored spire of the Heavenly Martial Arts Arena stood like a giant, towering over the endless sea of clouds, a magnificent sight.
"Tendo, have you decided which martial arts spire to start with?"
To participate in the Star-Vault Heavenly Ladder Ranking Competition in the Heavenly Martial Capital, one must meet two conditions.
One is an 'Invitation Letter'.
This proves that you indeed have the qualifications to participate in the challenge.
However, the invitation letter is only a qualification; it doesn't mean you can definitely participate.
Therefore, another condition must be met: the 'Martial Arts Badge'.
As long as one collects seven Martial Arts Badges, they can gain the qualification to participate in the central Heavenly Martial Arts Arena.
So, even though Tendo currently had the invitation letter issued by the main association.
He still needed to challenge seven of the martial arts spires.
That is, seven of the hundreds of spires outside the window, each representing a martial arts school.
Liu Ma's big sister, Yu Qianxia's Yu Clan, was one of the hundreds of martial arts spires.
And the 'Feather Style' martial arts spire was one of the five largest spires, excluding the central Heavenly Martial Arts Arena.
This was both proof of their family's strength and proof of the prosperity of their martial arts school.
As for Caroline's question, Tendo didn't take it seriously at all.
Because, for him, it was not a difficult task at all.
"Whatever, I'll just go to whichever one is closest when we arrive."
With these words, Tendo stood up and walked towards his room.
Don't be fooled by the fact that they seemed close to the Heavenly Martial Capital now; in reality, they were still half a day away from reaching it.
Tendo was neither planning to wait around here nor wanted to take this opportunity to properly sort out the rewards he had gained from the movie arc.
After all, with the end of this movie arc, he had deservedly won the first place in the movie arc's popularity ranking.
This gave him enough movie arc popularity points to purchase some special items that could only be bought within the movie arc system.
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