Two hours passed on the high stone battlements of Azure-Mist City.
Master Lu Jian did not work alone. Tang Xiaomi sat cross-legged on a wooden tool chest, her array goggles flashing with brilliant pink runes as her ten fingers blurred across three floating crystal tablets. Beside her, Master Lu hammered brass stakes into the stone parapet, anchoring four massive projection crystals.
“Channel the high-frequency earth resonance, Xiaomi!” Master Lu shouted, tapping his yellow divine array hard-hat. “Align the primary avenues with the seven glacial rivers!”
“Already locked into the bedrock grid, Master Lu!” Tang Xiaomi chirped back, her pigtails bobbing. “Geothermal conduits mapped! Spiritual pressure stabilized at twelve thousand atmospheres!”
With a resounding chime that vibrated across the wall, Tang Xiaomi pressed both palms against the central array node.
SHING.
A towering holographic projection burst from the crystals, rising two hundred feet into the clear morning sky.
It was a breathtaking three-dimensional model of a celestial megacity spanning the entire ten-thousand-square-kilometer southern basin.
