429: A child on the plane: Mom, there's a fairy uncle waving at me from above the clouds!

The next moment, Xu Lu had already activated the ability he had just unlocked: 'Soaring to Great Heights'.

He only felt his body suddenly lighten, just like the line 'I wish to ride the wind and return' he had written not long ago.

The earth's gravity completely vanished for him at this moment.

A flash of inspiration struck Xu Lu's heart, and he took a big step forward, walking step by step into the void.

When ascending through the air, he didn't feel the slightest strain.

In just a few breaths, he had floated up to several hundred meters in the sky.

The wind here was significantly stronger than on the ground below, but strangely, Xu Lu did not feel himself being blown away or swaying precariously.

In fact, when using the ability 'Soaring to Great Heights', his control over his body remained.

Moreover, he could not only walk upward but also move forward, backward, left, and right.

Of course, the speed of movement was not too fast, barely faster than an average person sprinting, and naturally incomparable to the speed achieved when piloting the iron man armor.

However, Xu Lu realized that if he simultaneously used a body-lightening technique while in this state, his speed could increase significantly.

"It's amazing. Although I've reached high altitudes, I'm not affected by the strong winds or low temperatures up here.

As everyone knows, for every hundred meters of elevation gain, the temperature drops by 0.6 degrees Celsius.

It's already autumn, and I estimate I've reached over a thousand meters in the air, so the temperature should be quite low, but I don't feel any cold at all!"

Xu Lu muttered.

Although he was currently thousands of meters high, he wasn't panicking at all.

This wasn't because he possessed the 'Super Healing Ability' skill.

It was simply because the iron man armor's remote sensing device was always on him; if anything unexpected happened, he could summon the armor for support at any time.

"I'll continue going up and see if there's a height limit to the 'Soaring to Great Heights' ability!"

Thinking this, Xu Lu continued floating upward.

If anyone saw him at this moment, they would definitely think he was truly ascending to become an immortal.

Because Xu Lu had no devices on him, yet he was walking step by step into the high sky.

Besides the phrase 'Ascending to Immortality', it would be difficult to think of any other suitable description.

Several minutes quickly passed, and Xu Lu successfully ascended to an altitude of at least ten thousand meters.

He wasn't sure of the exact height.

But the cloud layer here was thick, and the air convection was quite violent. Xu Lu, having gone through nine years of compulsory education, naturally knew this place was the famous 'Troposphere'.

In fact, the temperature here had long dropped below freezing, but it had no effect on Xu Lu.

After experiencing the Troposphere briefly, he continued floating upward.

About half a minute later, he broke free from the constraints of the cloud layer and saw the true void.

The airflow here was much more stable. Clearly, Xu Lu had entered the 'Stratosphere' region.

Most passenger planes fly at the bottom of this region, allowing them to avoid the active air currents of the Troposphere, thus ensuring flight safety.

"Huh, such good luck?"

Just as Xu Lu was about to ascend further, he saw a large passenger plane, flashing its signal lights, flying past nearby.

His excellent eyesight allowed him to see the drowsy passengers inside through the cabin window.

Initially, he didn't pay much attention, but suddenly he noticed a small child behind one of the cabin windows staring at him with wide eyes.

If it were any other time, nothing would be visible from a plane ten thousand meters up late at night.

But it was the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, and the moonlight was exceptionally bright.

The child clearly spotted Xu Lu, staring over without blinking.

Xu Lu smiled, waved at the child, and then ascended to a higher altitude.

It wasn't until he disappeared from the child's sight that the child snapped back to reality, quickly shaking the arm of a woman next to him and whispering:

"Mom, I just saw Immortal Uncle! He was standing on the clouds and waving at me!"

Hearing this, the woman clearly didn't take it seriously.

She tapped the child's nose and said with a smile:

"Sweetie, did you watch some strange TV show with your brother again this afternoon? Be good, it's time to sleep!"

"But I really saw Immortal Uncle! He was walking up step by step, and then he vanished!"

The child explained with a serious expression.

The woman didn't refute him, merely smiling and saying:

"Alright, Mommy knows, now hurry up and sleep. Maybe you'll see that Immortal Uncle in your dreams!"

"Mhm!"

Hearing this, the child obediently nodded and closed his eyes... Xu Lu, who was already soaring freely upward through the Stratosphere, naturally didn't know about the subsequent conversation on the plane.

However, he wasn't overly curious about the tens of thousands of meters covered by the Stratosphere.

Because he had visited this area more than once while piloting the iron man armor.

In fact, while wearing the armor, he had directly broken out of the Earth's atmosphere.

But he hadn't continued exploring further up afterward.

Relying on the 'Soaring to Great Heights' ability now, Xu Lu simply wanted to experience what it felt like to exit the atmosphere without wearing the armor.

Of course, at the height he had reached, oxygen was already extremely scarce.

Ordinary people could not survive here at all.

However, Xu Lu had long since switched his breathing to an internal circulation state, which he could maintain for a long time.

Finally, after soaring for a while in boredom, Xu Lu felt the scene before him change, and the brilliant starry sky was displayed directly in front of him.

Stars that only twinkle on the ground now formed a magnificent sea of stars, and the moon was astonishingly large, seeming as if it were right before his eyes.

Although he had seen this scene many times, it still left Xu Lu feeling quite shocked.

In fact, he discovered that after breaking through the atmosphere, the 'Soaring to Great Heights' ability had become somewhat stronger.

At least his movement speed had increased significantly compared to before.

"In a sense, I have truly broken free from the constraints of the ground.

But standing here alone is too lonely. I still prefer the mortal world below!"

After staying for a while, Xu Lu sighed silently.

He immediately pressed the armor sensing device.

In less than a few minutes, a set of modular iron man armor had covered his entire body.

The reason he came up earlier was to experience the effect of the 'Soaring to Great Heights' ability.

Now that he was returning to the ground, there was no need for such trouble; using the armor would be much faster.

Soon, Xu Lu controlled the armor to plummet downward, rapidly passing through the Stratosphere and Troposphere regions.

The next moment, he could already see the brightly lit city lights on the ground below.

Compared to the brilliant sea of stars in the night sky, the fireworks of the mortal world presented a different kind of beauty.