The largest inn in all of Qizhou City.
Just from the inn's name—which contains the "Heavenly Wind" from the Heavenly Wind Kingdom—one can tell the extraordinary nature of this place; otherwise, in the martial-ruled Heavenly Wind Kingdom, they wouldn't allow this inn to bear the name "Heavenly Wind".
The entire Tianfeng Tower Inn is a massive seven-story building, with glazed tile eaves and carved mahogany railings, reaching a height of thirty to forty meters, it looks spectacularly majestic!
On both sides of the inn's entrance stand two giant stone lions; each over five meters long and three meters tall, they have fierce eyes and are roaring up at the sky!
Now, as the night has fallen, giant Luminous Pearls hang in various places, lighting up the whole inn brightly.
Meanwhile, Ye Chen is quietly cultivating in the highest room on the seventh floor, the Tian Character Room of Tianfeng Tower Inn.
After entering Qizhou City, he and his parents, as well as Tao'er, came to stay at the Tianfeng Tower Inn. After dining in the most luxurious room, he directly rented out the three best Tian Character Rooms on the seventh floor.
One for his parents, one for himself, even the little girl Tao'er got her own room.
The Tian Character Rooms, as expected, are the best rooms. By opening the doors and standing on the balcony, one can see the entire view of Qizhou City. The rooms themselves are extremely spacious and bright. On the desks in the rooms, three sticks of "Green Sandalwood Incense" were burning.
This Green Sandalwood Incense is said to have originated from the pharmaceutically-specialized Seventh-Rank sect, the Hundred Treasures Sect, with profound benefits for nourishing the spirit and mind.
Martial practitioners cultivating under this incense can easily enter a state of meditative unity with their minds and spirits. Even ordinary mortals, simply by smelling the "Green Sandalwood Incense," could reap great health benefits!
If this incense were to be sold, Ye Chen would even be willing to spend a large sum of silver to buy some for his parents.
Renting these three upscale rooms to allow his parents to sleep while inhaling "Green Sandalwood Incense" was well worth the tens of thousands of taels of silver for Ye Chen!
At this moment, Ye Chen was seated cross-legged on the ground, further comprehending the "Wind Sword Skills" and "Wind Movement Skills" through the "Wind's Concept".
Among the martial techniques Ye Chen controlled, he had already achieved great success in the Torrential Rain Sword Skills and Cross-Slash Fast Kill Sword Technique.
He had also fully mastered the essence of Torrential Rain Sword Intent, Purple Lightning Sword Intent, and Wind's Sword Intent.
Only the two mysterious top-grade techniques obtained from the Qianlian Cave Dwelling, Wind Thunder Sword Technique and Wind Thunder Movement, had yet to be fully cultivated.
What he began cultivating first were two sub-techniques of these techniques, the Wind Sword Skills and the Wind Movement Skills, and he had just barely brought these two sub-techniques to the beginning levels of proficiency.
These two sub-techniques had also reached the level of mysterious low-rank techniques, their power far surpassing that of the yellow-rank techniques.
By just cultivating the "Wind Sword Skills" to the early stages, the power of Ye Chen's Wind Sword Skills already far exceeded that of the Torrential Rain Sword Skills and Cross-Slash Fast Kill Sword Technique.
The Wind Sword Skills consist of nine forms and, unlike the pursuit of speed in the Torrential Rain Sword Technique and Cross-Slash Fast Kill Sword Technique.
In the Wind Sword Skills, there are various mysterious concepts of wind: the first form—Hurricane Fury—moves like a sweeping hurricane, with the furious power of a heavy sword.
And the second form—Breeze Thirteen Slashes—transitions from a heavy sword to a sinister light sword, with sword moves like a gentle breeze, invisible and incomprehensibly tricky.
The third form—Wind Spiral Kill—is a rotating wind attack.
The fourth form, Wind Strangle Kill, possesses a terrifying constricting power. Once mastered, it can even create a devastating constricting storm, shredding the opponent completely within it.
There are also the fifth form, the sixth form, all the way up to the final ninth form.
Of the full nine forms of Wind Sword Skills, Ye Chen has merely begun to grasp the third form, "Wind Spiral Kill," while he's still comprehending the fourth form, "Wind Strangle Kill".
Besides the "Wind Sword Skills" being cultivated to early proficiency, Ye Chen has also brought the movement technique "Wind Movement Skills" to the same initial level.
With the early proficiency in the "Wind Movement Skills" technique, Ye Chen's previous movement technique "Startling Goose Steps" has become somewhat redundant.
Startling Goose Steps, this mid-grade yellow-rank movement technique, is known for its speed. When cultivated to great success, it moves as swiftly as lightning, and as quickly as shooting rainbows, capable of instantaneously changing to seven different positions.
However, it's still just a mid-grade yellow-rank movement technique. Compared to the more precious low-grade mysterious technique "Wind Movement Skills," it's significantly inferior.
Wind Movement Skills has three major effects: the first is its extremely fast speed. Once cultivated to great success, one can instantly switch eighteen positions, moving like the wind, unpredictable.
The second major effect is gasping flight. Startling Goose Steps relies on footwork to move about, with flight scarcely reaching five or six meters, whereas once Wind Movement Skills is cultivated to great success, gasping flight can span over a hundred meters in one go, akin to a short burst of flight!
The third great effect is Wind Movement Flurry. If cultivated to great success, it means one can fly upwards in the sky nine times in succession without needing to catch one's breath, soaring over a hundred meters into the sky; combined with gasping flight, this is already a minor flying technique!
Now, Ye Chen has just cultivated this "Wind Movement Skills" to early proficiency. He's already capable of instantly switching nine positions, can gasp and fly over fifty meters away, and can continuously soar over fifty meters high with Wind Movement Flurry.
This has already pleasantly surprised Ye Chen.
He looks forward to the day when he'll cultivate these "Wind Sword Skills" and "Wind Movement Skills" to great success. By then, harnessing his internally cultivated Heaven and Earth True Qi together with Gang Yuan True Qi, combined with these two external martial skills, his combat power will take another significant leap.
He might even truly experience the fleeting thrill of flying through the skies!