The Lin Clan's harbor district had never seen a morning like this one.
Three great spiritual ships floated above the stone docking platforms, held aloft by twin arrays of qi-infused levitation stones embedded along their hulls — each stone glowing a pale, steady blue-white that turned the morning mist beneath the ships into something luminous.
The largest vessel, the 'Silver Phoenix', was the clan's flagship — a hundred-foot cultivator transport with reinforced hull plates carved in repeating phoenix motifs, its main deck wide enough to hold forty cultivators standing formation, its lower decks fitted with individual cultivation chambers and a central qi-stone furnace that burned clean and hot.
Spiritual qi stones were being loaded by the crateful.
