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Chapter 374
Two guards stepped out of the line.Their steps were heavy and measured, the thin armor on their shoulders clinking softly. Both were broad-shouldered, with hard faces and eyes as cold as the sky metal on their shoulders. Their gaze swept over Wuhen, then Caelan, then Rex, and lingered on the black robes embroidered with snakes and swords.Lower World robes.The guards' jaws tightened. Their noses wrinkled slightly, as though the wind carried a foul smell.No smiles. No nods. Nothing like the greetings Caelan had watched them give the noble carriages passing in and out of the gate in the distance."Halt," said the first guard. His voice was low and flat, the way one addresses a stray dog. "Lower World people. What business do you have here?"Caelan felt that gaze pressing against his skin. Not from power, but from hatred left completely bare.Wuhen Lianhun didn't flinch.He smiled calmly and clasped his hands in a respectful salute."Greetings, honored guards. We are from the Black So
Chapter 373
The wind at that altitude was no ordinary wind.The higher they climbed, the more something pressed in from every direction. Not a push, not a blow, but an even weight, as though the entire sky were leaning on their shoulders. The air felt thick, like deep water. Every breath had to be pulled in, every blink felt heavy.This made Caelan instinctively grip Rex's hand tightly.Around his body, the Immortal Realm's energy glowed faintly like a membrane, holding the pressure back. He could feel it pushing against that membrane from outside, without pause, thousands of times stronger than any wave in the Lower World.So this is what the Sect Leader meant.He pictured himself a week ago, without that membrane. This pressure would have crushed his bones, squeezed his organs, and torn his flesh apart before he could even scream. An ordinary human body here was like fruit caught in a giant's fist.Caelan drew a deep breath.He really did have to reach the Immortal Realm first. There was no sho
Chapter 372
That morning, the sky above the Black Soul Sect was clear and cloudless.The sect's main courtyard, an expanse of black stone the size of dozens of fields, had been full since dawn. Inner disciples, outer disciples, servants, gate guards, even the herders from the pastures behind the sect. Thousands of people stood packed together, filling every corner and staircase, even the rooftops of the surrounding buildings.No one spoke loudly. Only a hum of whispers spread like wind across a field.In the middle of the courtyard, three figures stood facing each other.Wuhen Lianhun. Caelan. And Rex.The latter two had changed their clothes.Jet-black robes wrapped their bodies, the fabric falling smoothly with a faint sheen like the surface of a lake at night. At the collar and sleeve edges, silver thread embroidered motifs of snakes and swords coiled around each other, just like the carvings on the pillars of the banquet hall. But something set these robes apart from ordinary disciples' robes
Chapter 371
The first thing Caelan felt was silence.Not silence from the outside. The wind still moved, the pond still rippled, crickets in the distance still sang. But inside him, for the first time he could remember, there was no roar. No sense of drawing and channeling, no effort to keep energy in place.That energy no longer needed to be kept. It simply was.The second thing was lightness.His body was still the same body, but it was as though every burden he had never noticed was now lifted. The fatigue that had always clung to his bones, the old wounds that sometimes throbbed when it rained, the heavy breathing after a fight, all of it vanished like fog swept away by the sun.The third thing was a world that had widened.He could hear Rex's heartbeat without turning his head. Slow, calm, steady. He could feel every blade of grass swaying, every drop of water falling from a leaf into the pond. He could even feel the flow of spiritual energy creeping beneath the ground, moving like the veins
Chapter 370
The next seven days ran at the same rhythm.Dawn, meditation beneath the giant tree. Midday, technique training with Wuhen Lianhun on the stone field behind the main hall. Night, back to meditating with Rex until the stars had drifted far from where they started.On the first day of training, Wuhen stood in front of Caelan with a sword in hand."I'll teach you this sect's two peak techniques," he said. "Soul Shackle of a Thousand Shadows and Eternal Darkness Curse. Our best disciples need years to master even one of them. So don't be disappointed if all you get this month is the basics."Caelan nodded. "Understood."Wuhen swung his sword.SRAKK.One slash, and a silver shadow remained in the air. A second slash, a second shadow. Within a few breaths, a dozen sword trails floated around Wuhen, pulsing slowly like living things awaiting orders."The secret isn't in the sword," said Wuhen. "It's in the intent you leave behind in every slash."Caelan studied those shadows for a very long
Chapter 369
Caelan opened his eyes.Slowly, and for a moment he didn't move at all.There was something inside him.Not just residual warmth from the stone. This was something large, dense, and alive—churning in his dantian like an ocean that had just been woken. He closed his fist, and the air around it trembled faintly. He drew a breath, and the night wind seemed to be pulled inward with him.His strength had grown.Rapidly. Far more rapidly than anything he had ever felt in a single night.And at the edge of all of it, he felt something else. A boundary. Thin, nearly translucent—like a glass wall waiting for one final tap.Just one more step.One step away from a higher level.Something stirred in Caelan's chest.Is that... the Immortal Realm?He didn't know. He had never stood there, so there was nothing to compare it to. But his instinct kept saying the same thing, over and over, with a certainty he couldn't ignore: that door was very close.The corner of his mouth lifted.Not the usual thin
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