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Breakfast ended in a silence different from the silence of last night's meeting room.This was a calmer silence—not because the tension had fully disappeared, but because everyone at that table knew their place and didn't feel the need to fill the quiet with words that weren't necessary.Caelan set down his chopsticks."Take good care of this sect." His eyes swept the table once. "Don't cause trouble outside. And if trouble comes in—contact me first before making any decisions."Bai Li nodded. The others followed."As you wish, Supreme Leader."Caelan stood. Rex was already on his feet before he had fully risen—a pattern that had developed between the two of them without either of them ever explicitly discussing it.---At the massive gate of the Eternal Black Dragon Sect, the departure was quiet.A few guards at the post, Bai Li, and several officials who had followed them this far—standing in the way of people who didn't know whether what they felt was more discomfort during the vis
Chapter 233
He clenched his fist slowly, then harder, until his knuckles went white.I need to get stronger.What I have now... it's still not enough.I'm certain something big is waiting, and when that moment comes, I don't want to have any regrets.And as Caelan released his fist, slowly letting the color return to his skin, three knocks came from his room door.Quiet, even, with a consistent pause between each one.He knew immediately who was on the other side.Caelan smiled faintly before speaking."Come in, Rex."The door opened. Rex stepped in in a way no different from how he stepped into the hotel room at The Grandeur, into the penthouse dining area, into anywhere that had become part of his routine."Papa, breakfast is ready." Then, in a tone different from a simple report. "And interestingly—they have dishes that are just as good as what Layla brings. I've already tried them, and now it's your turn."Caelan looked at him for a moment.Rex could eat solid food now and was no longer relyi
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The Eternal Black Dragon Sect's meeting room hadn't changed since the night before.The same long round table of black wood. The same stone walls. The lights neither bright nor dim. The only difference was one thing—the chair at the end of the table that yesterday had been occupied by the previous Supreme Leader was now filled by Caelan.Eight Grand Elders sat around him."I'll get straight to the point." Caelan placed his hands on the table, one look that swept every face in the room in an unhurried way. "I don't care whether you hate me. Don't care whether you're carrying a grudge over what happened tonight—over the two Grand Elders I killed, over everything you witnessed in the arena." A pause. "I only want one thing. Carry out my orders well. And if any of you have a problem with that..."He didn't finish the sentence.He didn't need to.His eyes moved from one face to the next—slowly, measured—and one by one, those faces chose not to hold contact.Some looked down. Some shifted t
Chapter 231
On the way to the hall, the corridors they passed through were still quiet—sect members who hadn't fully processed what had happened tonight hadn't returned to their usual routines, and likely wouldn't for some time.Caelan walked with Bai Li at his side."One thing I need to know before we get there." His voice came out without slowing his pace. "How does a sect this size sustain itself financially?"Bai Li didn't hesitate to answer."The Eternal Black Dragon Sect runs one business, Supreme Leader." His tone was measured, without excess color. "Assassination. Sect members scattered across the world take contracts—from individuals, from powerful families, from anyone who can afford our price. We charge well, of course. And we have never failed to complete a contract."Caelan listened without interrupting.One thing that had been nagging at him from the very beginning finally found its answer now. Harrison Blake, who had sent two cultivators to kill him, hadn't reached the Eternal Blac
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Outside the door of that room, Bai Li stood still.His hands were cold.Not because of the temperature, since this pavilion corridor had never felt any different from usual. But something had surfaced in his head since a moment ago, since his own words had stopped mid-path, since his eyes had met Caelan Voss's eyes for a fraction of a second—not long, but enough to convey more than it should have.Every appearance of Xului was always followed by something significant.A cultivator with power that surpassed their era.Bai Li swallowed.Thirty-two years he had served as Sect Administrator. Thirty-two years reading records, archiving history, maintaining everything in the room whose door had just closed behind the new Supreme Leader. In those thirty-two years, the name Xului had been read so often it felt like reading the name of someone known—but never truly present, never truly real.Until tonight.Has Xului appeared again?And is the one he encountered Caelan Voss?That conclusion cou
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Caelan's hand stopped on one bundle of documents.Nothing about its appearance was special—a cover no different from the others, a cord no more eye-catching than the rest. But there was a kind of energy drawing him to it, something that couldn't be ignored, that made his hand stop there and nowhere else.He picked it up.Opened it.The writing inside was old—but readable, in the way of writing very carefully preserved by something invisible from the damage of age. Caelan read in silence, with Bai Li still standing quietly near the door and not interrupting.First page. Second. Third.Then his eyes stopped.There, among records of cultivation history with no exact dates, among names he didn't recognize and events with no surviving witnesses—one name appeared.Xului.An old man with long white hair. Appearing every few years, from time to time, with no predictable pattern. The name was first recorded in this document a thousand years ago—not as a founder, not as a leader, but as someone
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