The floating islands of the Heaven-Piercing Sacred Dragon Sect slowly shrank behind him.Kael flew without looking back. Wind struck his face, his new white robe fluttered violently, yet his steps in the air remained stable. Calm, like someone who had just finished trivial business, not someone who had just created massive chaos.At this point, he felt it. Two Primordial Realm auras exploded from behind. Not simultaneously, but in sequence, like two storms devouring each other. Even at this distance, the pressure still felt like an invisible hand pressing toward him.A smile appeared on Kael's face. Not a warm smile, not a satisfied smile over what he left behind, but the smile of a strategist seeing his pieces move exactly according to plan."Keep destroying each other," he murmured softly, his voice swallowed by the wind."Every bit of energy you waste today is energy I won't have to fight tomorrow."He shifted his eyes to the horizon stretching wide before him. From here, he could

The grandmother didn't answer immediately. Her wrinkled hands moved back to sorting herbs in the wooden box, like someone who was thinking while still working.Several moments passed in silence.Then she said, without turning, "Work for me for one month. Help with what needs helping, make sure I'm satisfied with your performance, and that stone will be given to you for free."Her eyes finally shifted to Kael, looking at him from top to bottom with a gaze that had been assessing all along.From the way he dressed, from the way he spoke, from the high-level spirit stone he produced without hesitation, this youth was clearly not an ordinary person. A child from a wealthy family, at the very least. The type who had never touched rough work in his entire life. He wouldn't last one week, let alone one month.In the end he would leave on his own, and that black stone would remain in its place.Kael heard that condition and was silent briefly.One month?Not a short time, and in his mind real

That man retreated staggering, screaming in pain. His left hand immediately gripped his right wrist that now bent in a direction it shouldn't."Bastard!"Kael looked at him coldly. "A hand that dares to be raised toward an elderly person doesn't deserve to remain intact. Consider this a warning."The second man didn't wait any longer. His aura exploded, low-level Transcendent Realm that he fully deployed without reserve. The golden badge on his chest glinted as his body shot forward, speed enough to leave shadows in the air. His hand formed an attack stance he had used to finish off dozens of people beneath his caliber."You dare attack the Order Guards of the Golden Lotus Flower Sect?! You're already dead today!"But his fist only struck empty air.Kael disappeared.Not retreating, not jumping. Just disappeared, as if he had never stood there.That man froze, his head spinning searching for the target."Where...?!"BRAKK!Something struck his shoulder from behind hard. Not an attack

The man with the cloth-wrapped wrist answered in a tone between angry and ashamed, "This is the doing of a youth at the Thousand Leaves Herb Shop, Physician Feng. He beat us up and refused to leave that place."The room was silent for two seconds, then Feng Quanyi clenched his hands so tightly his knuckles whitened. His jaw hardened until his teeth ground together.He hadn't felt anger like this in a long time, anger from someone accustomed to getting what he wanted and suddenly finding an obstacle where he didn't expect it."That small herb shop in the corner of the market?" his voice came out in a low and cold tone. "A youth from there dared to refuse the Golden Lotus Flower Sect's orders and injure two Order Guard members?"No one answered. The answer was already clear from the condition of the two people standing before him.Feng Quanyi released his clenched hands, pulled his robe, and walked to the door."Let's go, meet that bastard!"Twenty Order Guards were already standing in

Feng Quanyi took a step back.One step, two steps, before he even realized what he was doing. He stopped. Both hands clenched at his sides, his jaw tightening.He was Feng Quanyi. The most important physician in the Golden Lotus Sect right now. His name was known from the northern to the southern edges of this region. No sane person would dare harm him, no matter how strong they were.This young man was no exception!His confidence came back, not fully, but enough to steady his voice."You've truly dug your own grave!" He pointed at Kael with a finger that wasn't entirely steady. "You didn't just defy the orders of the Golden Lotus Sect, you actually injured twenty Order Keepers! You're finished now, boy!"Kael stopped walking. Four steps now stood between them."I'm finished?"His tone was flat. No fear. No nerves."At least I'll make sure you come with me."Feng Quanyi felt that cold creeping back up his spine. The young man was staring directly into his eyes without blinking, and i