The First Layer of the Celestial Mansion, at the hour of Jingzhe.
As the Sun appeared and its disk traversed the heavens, the great cities gradually awoke, becoming bustling and noisy. In the sky above, streaks of Flying Light zipped past.
This phenomenon became more pronounced the closer one got to the hub of the First Layer, the Ascension Platform.
Once inside the Ascension Platform—the nexus between the First and Second Layers of the Celestial Mansion where every inch of land was worth its weight in gold—one could no longer see any mortals without Cultivation.
Fang Yuan was one such person.
As a Cultivator at the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining and on the verge of breaking through to the Late Stage, his status on the First Layer was neither low nor high. He could be considered part of the middle class.
