Tears of the Azure Sky: A Crown Prince's Journal from the Fan Dynasty

In the Flourishing Dynasty, where spirit-stone trains race through the clouds, Prince Jiang Yinghan was born with damaged spiritual meridians. He is an "odd one out in the royal family" who is afraid of heights even when riding a flying sword. Carrying a handkerchief of mermaid silk, he travels across the Qingxiao Realm, documenting this strange age in which cultivation clans coexist with beastfolk tribes:

He watches cultivators meditate beside steam boilers, plastering talismans over their enchanted prosthetic limbs;

He hears a half-beast songstress beyond the palace walls sing "Song of the Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Robe" through a mechanical throat;

And amid his father's furious cries of "ending war with war," he secretly hides the severed horns of beastfolk younglings.

When the iron fleet of the western Chilian state hovers above the imperial capital, Jiang Yinghan trembles as he unfurls the glider designed by Su Jin. The half-beast physician who always teases him as a "crybaby prince" is now using an arm woven from gears and blood vessels to calibrate his altitude.

“Your Highness fears the sky, so I will be your solid ground.”

The history books will record the war that changed the continent of Peles, but no one will know:

On the day the new emperor ascended the throne, a bloodstained handkerchief was hidden beneath his dragon robe;

And the folk legend of the "Weeping Healer" always speaks of a rain that soaked the entire dynasty.