WHOOSH!
In mid-January, a cold wind swirled with the air currents, sweeping across the balcony.
The floor-to-ceiling windows of a distant high-rise reflected the sunlight. Office workers bustled inside, their silhouettes crossing glass corridors on their way to their offices.
BEEP BEEP!
From the street below came the sound of car horns. Figures in windbreakers and thick fleece hoodies were arguing, seemingly over a car crash.
Everything looked exactly the same. Nothing had changed.
And yet, as Lu Chao stood on his apartment balcony quietly watching it all, he felt an inexplicable difference.
'Clarity?'
'Not quite.'
'Sharpness? No, that wasn't it either.'
His white Martial Arts uniform fluttered in the wind as he carefully examined the enhancement from the 2nd Floor of his Observation Method, "Round Sun."
First, his resistance to spiritual attacks had increased again, nearly doubling.
