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CHAPTER 148
Theon kept his eyes closed.He was doing his best to contain the chaotic energy rioting inside him. It clawed at his meridians, a restless beast pacing behind his ribs.He was already distracted. The reminder from the system worsened it, splintering what little concentration he had left and making his aegis stutter mid-cycle.After five more forced circulation cycles, his back bowed. A wet, ragged cough tore out of him, and dark, stale blood splattered onto the mat beneath.His face twisted. A low grimace broke through his composure as pain lanced white-hot through his chest.Still with his eyes closed, his hand groped blindly to the side until his fingers found the towel he had used to wipe his wound earlier. He brought it to his mouth, wiping the thick, metallic blood from his lips with a trembling hand.Once he was done, he did not stop. He continued the process.This time, breathing came easier. The terrible clogging in his heart meridians that had felt like wet stone lodged in hi
CHAPTER 147
Backlands, 2:00 a.m.Blood was steadily dripping from a cut on the upper part of his arm.His lips had gone pale, and the area around the injury had turned suspiciously purplish, almost as if it had been poisoned.Sweat coated his body, running down his temples, neck, and back. His clothes clung to his skin, damp and uncomfortable, while every movement sent a dull throb through the wound.After leaving the academy through the secret routes he had previously prepared, he had spent another hour circling around and trying to reach the target.An hour of running, changing directions, and following traces that seemed deliberately designed to lead him in circles.The target kept switching routes midway, almost as if he had already guessed that he was being followed.Theon had changed his route several times as well, but each time he thought he was finally closing in, the other party would suddenly veer off in another direction.It had been infuriating. Worse, it had cost him precious time.
CHAPTER 146
Twenty minutes had already gone by since he began to carve out the tiny corner of the wall, which he intended to crawl out from.The old stones were indeed hard to carve out without letting the entire building fall apart. Every strike had to be measured. One wrong move, one section weakened too much, and the entire wall could come crashing down on top of him.The result was that the edges were rough since he was cutting circularly along the areas where the mortar was applied. Between stones.Small fragments of stone continued to fall whenever his tool scraped too deeply into the wall. Each time, Theon froze and listened, waiting to hear the ominous groan of shifting stone.Nothing. Only then would he resume.He also had to use special miniature arrays to hold up the sections he had already cut open. Tiny arrays flickered faintly in the darkness, anchoring the weakened stones and preventing them from shifting under their own weight.The process was painfully slow.Sweat poured steadily
CHAPTER 145
Theon's heart was hammering erratically in his chest. But somehow, he managed to stay silent enough that even his breath remained undetectable. His entire body had gone rigid behind the cupboard. He could hear the faintest sounds from the passage outside, the barely audible scrape of footsteps against the floor, followed by a moment of silence. The person walking along the passage stopped briefly before pushing open the door. Theon held his breath. That was when he noticed something. There was a second footstep which he hadn't detected before. His eyes narrowed. Two people? The first footsteps had been so light that he had barely registered them, but now there was another presence moving through the passage. His fingers curled slowly against the floor as he strained his ears. “There’s no one here. I told you he’s still sleeping upstairs.” He heard old man Lu’s familiar voice say. Theon’s brows furrowed. Old man Lu? “Better.” A gruff one answered. The voice was unfamiliar. D
CHAPTER 144
Theon checked the time once again. It was seven in the evening.He had checked around the house thoroughly. Every window now had metal barricades reinforced across it. He could remove them and just leave. However, the mark would leave visible damage on both the wall and the metal bars. Damage that would be difficult to explain, and hard to hide.There also was the monitoring formation upstairs that was supposed to track and record his movements.He had thought carefully, turning over every possibility in his mind, and there was no safe exit out of the building.And time was counting down.“Since they're watching the doors and windows to see when I leave, why don't I just totally avoid both?”The idea was absurd. But that seemed to be the only option left.“You think you can use a teleportation talisman or technique without disrupting the formations?” The system sneered. “Quite naive.”Theon chuckled, his pitch low. “Who said anything about teleportation?”He made his way to the back
CHAPTER 143
Backlands; Theon's New RoomTheon finally settled for the room opposite his previous room.It wasn't ideal. Far from it.However, considering the circumstances, it was still better than remaining in his previous room and waiting for the death formation to finish what it had started.There were drawbacks, though.The most troublesome was the environment itself.He couldn't simply absorb energy from the surroundings since it was basically poison.Currently, in the room, there was a giant tent. The thick silver tent took up most part of the modest room, leaving only a narrow path around its edges. Its leather surface shimmered faintly under the dim light, covered in tiny, almost imperceptible patterns that pulsed whenever the formations outside shifted.All around, there were also thick rugs with special arrays engraved on them to repel the other formations.The rugs overlapped slightly at the edges, creating another defensive layer between Theon and the death formations hidden throughou
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