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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
Chapter 368
"What is that, Sect Leader?" asked Caelan.Wuhen Lianhun didn't answer with words. He stepped closer, stopped in front of them, then opened the lid of the dark wooden box with one slow motion.Blue light poured out.Soft, but bright enough to illuminate all three of their faces in the darkness of the garden. Inside the box, resting on a bed of black cloth, lay a stone the size of a thumb. Its surface was smooth and clear as crystal, and inside it blue light pulsed slowly—rising and falling like the breathing of something alive."This is called a spirit stone," said Wuhen.The nearby pond trembled faintly. The spiritual energy in the garden, which had been flowing slowly before, seemed to turn toward the box."Concentrated spiritual energy is stored inside it. The size is small, but its contents are equivalent to decades of ordinary energy accumulation. And the quality..." Wuhen paused briefly. "Far beyond anything you could absorb from the air in the Lower World."Caelan stared at the
Chapter 367
Midday at the Black Soul Sect was different from midday in any other place Caelan had passed through.Not because the sun was different, not because the air was warmer or cooler. But there was something invisible here—something that could only be felt when a person stopped moving and allowed themselves to be fully present in one place.Spiritual energy.Here, it wasn't something that had to be sought or drawn. It existed everywhere, like air that was fuller than usual—flowing slowly between stones, clinging to tree trunks, moving across the surface of the ground in a way that could almost be felt with ordinary palms.They chose a spot in the sect's back garden. Not a garden in the sense of a tidied yard, but an expanse left to grow in its own way for hundreds—perhaps thousands—of years.The trees here were already too old to have their age measured in ordinary ways. Their trunks wider than two adults with arms spread open, their roots jutting from the earth like enormous fingers gripp
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