"You know where the seventh fragment is? why didn't you tell me?" Kaien was puzzled at first when Moonfang told him he knew where it was. He'd forgotten about the mistake he made with Yeon before he left the Ashmoon kingdom. After all, once he retrieves the seventh fragment, he'd be able to properly defeat Vex'tharion and save Lan su and find Li Wei. Moonfang was silent for a bit, for a being of his kind, he didn't divulge everything he knew about the seventh fragment to Kaien immediately. "Well... aren't you going to say something?" Kaien pressed. Finding the fragment now was more important to him than anything. Moonfang let out a sigh before he said, "The seventh fragment energy made a faint appearance in another realm but I'm afraid it's in the possession of someone I can't connect with." Kaien lifted a brow. "I don't understand, you couldn't tell? how's that possible?" "I too do not understand why, Kaien. Whoever it is, they made sure I wouldn't be able to come

Meanwhile, beyond the exterior of Li-san's grandmother's fortress. Groans tore through the veils of serenity. Tailing down to the entrance, a good number of bodies littered the ground with Li-san standing atop them. She hadn't used her blade to combat the men in red garments. She barely even thought about it, Li-san after all was much of an exquisite combatant and her opposition; were basically men who relied on combat and their ability to manipulate the burning edges of their pathway. Unlike them, she was more controlled and coordinated. She had no issues going up against a good number of them because judging from their stance, she took them as rookies and dared not waste a single ounce of time with them. "So tell me... is that all of you?" They all winced and groaned in abnormal pain, their entire bones were beyond healing. they knew it themselves no number of healers would fix their bones back together, whoever they had gone up against made sure that they would never be able

While Han Taeoh drank to his satisfaction with his brother seated in front of him, the doors to the Han mansion suffered an impact that shook its foundation. Han Kyung was the first to react. He had gotten up quickly but Han Taeoh was still seated as if he knew the cause of it. "So there's someone actually brave enough to attempt to rob the Han clan." Taeoh placed his cup down and chuckled sternly. Little did he know that it wasn't robbers. Azure on its own had little to no crime like this. In fact robbers at midnight isn't even a thing. Han Kyung wanted to check it out but his brother only said one word to pull his legs. "Stop." He got up and advanced towards the door and added. "Stay here." "What?" "You heard me." Han Taeoh looked away before heading out while shutting the door. Han Kyung was puzzled for a moment, trying to wrap his head around while his brother had told him to stay there. was it trying to protect him thinking that the Han mansion was under attack, how w

Kaien's consciousness came crashing down into a white void like space, when he crashed, he crashed into solid ground forcing a groan out of him. He sat up and realized that beneath him held no actual ground, nothing. Kaien remained calm and looked ahead. There was nothing for him to see, just a vastly wide space, stretching infinitely into the unknown. Where is here? Without warning, three anomalies began to manifest all around him. When Kaien looked closer, the anomalies took on the appearance of the kings of the Jungle—The Three Lions. Their manifestation took him by surprise, they were bigger and even more fiercer than they looked as statues. Their structure replicated that of Ethereal stone, simultaneously shifting between solid and transparent. Kaien observed them with his key eyes, unable to comprehend the damnation he was in because they were emitting an aura that dwarfed his. Their presence alone predates everything that seems to exist. Kaien processed information that

Kaien's eyes beheld the brightest flares and the entire void space grumbled at his response. And just as it grumbled, the flares faded before momentarily and then, he felt something—an uncanny wrongness that no one should ever feel!Like multiple hands tugging at him, pulling him into the depths of the void except he couldn't see what was pulling him, it wasn't like something was there and at the same time, nothing was there. ‘How could I have gotten that wrong? Surely I got it right!’ But no one in particular responded to him, it was just him and the ever pulling force that kept making sure he'd never escape. "If I was wrong then what's the answer?’No one answered him, it was just him and the abyssal walls that he couldn't see. Then, he recalled the riddle; I'm not alive, yet I grow, I don't have lungs, but I need air, I don't have a mouth but water kills me. ‘What's the answer to this if not fire?’ Kaien groaned as the tugging got rougher and rougher, for some reason he felt h