Across the world, countless people watched the same astonishing scene through live broadcasts. Lu Yuan had stepped into empty space as though solid ground lay beneath his feet. 

"He... he is walking on air?" 

"Are we certain Lu Yuan isn't using some kind of technological device? Is he really walking through the air using nothing but his own power?" 

"Even at Fourth Growth you can't do that. Could Lu Yuan have already broken through to the Fifth Growth?" 

The ability to fly had been one of humanity's dreams since the earliest days of civilization. Hot-air balloons, airplanes, and rockets had eventually carried humans into the sky and even beyond it, but all of them depended on machines. The deeper wish had always been far simpler and far more inconceivable: to rise into the sky through one's own power and move freely through the air without relying on anything else. 

Even the Extreme...