The Nine Realms

2155 AD, a certain day.

At noon, the sky was still dim, and thick clouds piled up to the edge of the sky, where the sea and sky meet. The sea water hits the windows surrounded by cement stones and steel and aluminum profiles on the shore, and all kinds of trash in the sea water are constantly pouring in from each window. A few hundred meters from the shore, half of the water surface is exposed. A square-shaped building stands above it, reminding people that this place was once the commanding height of civilization and prosperity, and reminding people of everything that happened here.

"Tark, more than a hundred years ago, that place was called Lujiazui." A gray-haired old man pointed at the building with his hand and muttered, "This is "LJZ.Shanghai CN" on our map, the meaning of the three letters LJZ represent." As he said, the old man's pointing hand dropped onto the map in front of him, slowly picked up the magnifying glass, and searched for the coordinates and location points densely packed like rice grains. It took a lot of effort before he finally found the coordinates marked with LJZ, sighed and said, "At that time, people would turn on the tablet when looking at the map and zoom in and out at will. They don't have to work so hard..." As he said, his eyes lit up, and his face showed A look of infinite yearning, "Hey, we can't go back, we can't go back anymore..."

The twelve or thirteen-year-old child in front of him was called Tark Yuan. He opened his eyes and listened to the old man's words, but he was thinking of another thing in his mind-the gambling game with "Bellyband (nickname)" tonight. The old man moved his finger away from the location marked LJZ on the map, and pulled out another larger map from underneath the map, "Tark, come and take a look at this larger map, and let's resume from where we stopped last time." The little boy rolled his eyes, spread his hands, and made a leaning back. Pretending his legs were soft, he collapsed. The old man and the child stood on either sides of the stone pier, he stood to the left side of the child, by slipping out in an instant, he bowed his waist like a cat, and supported the fallen body of the child with his back, and at the same time he put out his left hand to protect the child's heart and abdomen. The sharp and coherent movements are not like the movements of an old man.

"Tark, what's wrong with you, is it hypoxia?" At this moment, the little boy stood up and said with a smile, "Grandpa Master, be blinded by me, blinded by me, I don't want to talk about the map again, Let's go back". The old man was relieved instantly, "Naughty boy, I've been fooled by you several times a day! One day my old arms and legs will be broken by your tricks, let's go." While talking, the old man waved his hand not far away and yelled, "Watarmoo, watarmoo", a cow or dragon liked water beast slowly emerged from the water, and picked up the two on its back before disappeared from the water in an instant.

This so called "Watarmoo" beast has a cheetah liked head , with membranes on its eyes, gills around its ears, two long curved canine teeth in its mouth pointing out downward, two large horns on the top of the head, with fan-shaped cartilage on the tip of the horns through to shoulders. The cartilage is connected, the body is lin-armed, the waist is finned, the four feet are well-proportioned, the toes are webbed, and a tail of the same length as the body gently swings in the water. When swimming, the hair of the whole body swings very beautifully. Carrying two people on the back, it sank into the water by pushing the water away from around its body, and swim in the water as fast as a flying fish.

Less than a quarter of an hour later, the two of them fell straight down from the water on the back of the Watarmoo. After crossing a long and narrow trench, they rose sharply. After about another three or five hundred meters, they swam diagonally upward again. Suddenly their eyes lit up, leaving the water and jumped on to the water surface, leaving Watarmoo in the water behind. This is a very open place, the old man and Tark Yuan hopped on the surface of the water, and flew for meters in an instant before they landed the land soil. They settled on a large stone monument, engraved with Chinese and English characters "Jiuyu/Nine RealmsS", and a row of small Chinese and English characters below. "Shuizu,Taihu,Zhongguo/ Aquarine.T.H.LAKE.CN".

On the shore, Tark Yuan bid farewell to the old man and ran to a residential houses not far away. This place is picturesque, with undulating mountains in the distance, grass and wildflowers nearby, like a paradise on earth. looking far, a lake is not ocean blue but slightly greenish, the stunning distinction is that the waterfall is from the lake water flows back up towards the sky. The residential buildings are mostly made from local materials, like bluestones and logs etc., which made the scenery so naturally matching. The "Bellyband" Tark was looking for lived in one of the houses near the lake. He didn't knock on the door, but strode over the door and ran in, "Bellyband, Bellyband..." "Tark, why are you here? I'm just waiting for you", Bellyband shouted, letting Tark to enter the house. In the spacious hall of the room, seven or eight children, large and small, were already sitting around, all looking back at Tark. The gambling game they are going to conduct today is a trivial test of flying Kungfu. The prize is a guide instrument hung on a cliff tens of meters high, which was produced 400 years ago and was purchased from the Five Elements Bazaar, Bellyband is a girl of about eight-year-old who usually plays with a bunch of boys. She has a carefree personality, lively and outgoing, and everyone likes her. These children usually play together and practice Kungfu with the white-bearded old man. Each of them has the unique flying Kungfu that the Aquarine tribe people are proud of—air walking. Several children already ran to the open space outside the house, started their posture to display what they had learned. Some of them had already flew upper or lower, and they were about to chase the prize in an instant.

Tark stayed in place and didn't move. He liked the guiding instrument very much, but he was also extremely contradictory at this time. The reason why Nine Realms is called such a name is because this place is a paradise where the Central plains Aquarine tribe people reside here together, and the Aquarines have stayed here for generations. The people have been guided by ancient ancestors, and they have practiced a masterly flying Kungfu skill from an early age-air walking. This skill starts with the elastic force of feet, and can take advantage of any foreign objects to practice to the extreme , to walking into the air, you would practise to have an ability to borrow power from each of your foot repeatedly. The Nine Realms is also divided into nine layers from bottom to top based on their skill capability base. The ninth layer is the top of the nine regions. No one knows how many people achieve this capability base. Most of the capable leaders of the Central Plains Aquarine tribe are just concentrated on the seventh and eighth layers, whose flying Kufung is nearly unbeatable by anyone from the rest places of world. Tark's hesitation also originated from a hidden worry and a secret in his mind. Three years ago, he was already able to flight on each other of his left and right foot then soar up. What is even more amazing is that Yuan family had been possessing a secret artifact-winning Soft Fish Armor, this armor stretches freely, it is as soft as a feather but it is extremely strong, it is as hard as a rock but is more than frivolity, with the help of this armor, not only can it overcome all hits without any damage, but the master who wears this armor will make a dramatic improvement at flying skill, or get a magical leap. With the help of this object, Tark has reached the very top level of leather incarnation flying at a young age, and it is no longer a problem to rise up in an instant. He has also been studying the highest ninth skill of air walking-the universal air walk. It is a superb effort to avoid the earth's gravity and move in any direction in an instant. Tark has concealed his leather incarnation skills for ages, even some senior experts who have practiced this way for decades, can only be expected. In order to be away from unnecessary rights and wrongs, he learned from the adults' teaching that he must be tolerant and hide his strength, and to keep this secret... At the moment of his hesitation, Bellyband has already made a noise of winning and put the Guiding instrument in the bag. Amidst the exclamations of the friends, she smiled and squinted to Tark with a proud look...