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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
Chapter 232
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
Chapter 230
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
Chapter 229
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
Chapter 228
The corridors inside the Eternal Black Dragon Sect were different from what Caelan had imagined from the outside.Not because they were narrower or darker—quite the opposite. These corridors were wide, with high ceilings, built to show that this sect had never constructed anything smaller than what was needed. The lights burning along the walls were no ordinary fire. They were the same blue-green light from the gate earlier.Bai Li walked beside him with steps already very familiar with this route."The Eternal Black Dragon Sect has stood for more than a thousand years, Supreme Leader." His voice came out in the way of someone accustomed to delivering information—measured, clear, without excess words. "But its origins—why this sect was created, how it first stood, who founded it—none of that is known by anyone. There are no records old enough to answer those questions."Caelan didn't interrupt."What we know begins from a thousand years ago. The first Supreme Leader recorded in this s
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