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CHAPTER 278. The Pill.
Rain poured relentlessly over the Indra Institute that night, painting streaks of light across the glass panes of Kirin’s dorm room. The thunder outside rolled like a beast pacing beyond the clouds, and every so often, lightning flickered white, blue, and faintly black, almost mirroring the chaos pulsing within him.Kirin sat cross legged in the dim glow of a single lantern. On the table before him lay the golden pill, still gleaming faintly even after hours. It hummed softly, a sound too delicate for human ears yet one that every cultivator could feel. It was alive in its own strange way, like a captured storm waiting for release.Rem leaned against the wall, chewing on a dry biscuit that crumbled like gravel between his teeth. His usual sarcasm was subdued tonight. The air itself demanded silence.“You’re actually thinking of swallowing that thing,” he said finally, nodding toward the pill. “You know that’s not some candy, right? That’s a Celestial Refraction Pill. It’s said to bend
CHAPTER 277. The Rankings Revealed.
“The results,” the headmaster finally announced, “will now be revealed.”A hush fell over the hall.The banners overhead began to shift, glowing names appearing in radiant light. Each name pulsed with faint energy as if reacting to the bearer’s cultivation essence.“Starting from the Rank 3 Division!” the announcer’s voice echoed.Dozens of students leaned forward, breath held.Fiftieth, forty-ninth, thirty fifth, names were called, cheers rising here and there, others groaning when theirs weren’t heard.Then“Fifth place... Kirin Arcanus.”Silence. It spread like frost through the room. Heads turned. A thousand eyes found him instantly.Kirin didn’t flinch. He just stood there, staring ahead, emotionless. A few students whispered loudly.“Fifth?! That’s impossible.”“He’s a Rank 3! He’s barely been here for a month!”“Didn’t he almost fail his Qi control exam?”“He killed the Leviathan, didn’t he? That was him!”The headmaster’s gaze found Kirin briefly. A small smile flickered on hi
CHAPTER 276. Feast of Victory.
The grand hall of the Indra Institute had never looked so alive.Lightning chandeliers pulsed like beating hearts, shimmering arcs of gold and silver light snaking through the air. Music rolled through the marble corridors, the deep hum of storm drums mixed with the clear notes of flutes. Tables stretched endlessly across the hall, packed with food that steamed and crackled with faint sparks of energy.It was the Feast of Victory, a celebration of survival.And yet, as laughter and cheers filled the space, one person sat silent.Kirin.He was seated near the end of the hall, close enough to watch the crowd but far enough to be forgotten by it. He poked at his plate absentmindedly, roasted lightning boar, fruit wine, storm eel soup, delicacies that only appeared during this festival. He tasted none of it.Around him, the surviving students had shed their grief like a wet cloak. They laughed too loud, drank too much, and told stories about how they almost died but didn’t.A red haired g
CHAPTER 275. End of the Hunt.
The storm had finally begun to thin.For days, thunder had roared like an endless drumbeat over the forests and valleys of Indra’s domain, but now the skies merely grumbled, quieter, almost tired. What had once been a carnival of blood and lightning now looked like the aftermath of a forgotten war.Bodies... both human and beast... lay scattered across the soaked terrain. The ground itself steamed from the countless lightning strikes that had turned soil into glass. The scent of ozone, smoke, and decay clung to the air like a curse.Kirin walked among it all, silent. His boots sank into mud streaked with blood, but he didn’t seem to notice. His lightning hummed faintly beneath his skin, still unstable but more obedient than before. Every few minutes, his fingers twitched, small arcs crackling between them.Rem followed close behind, spear strapped across his back, her usual calm expression replaced with something somber. She had tied a black cloth around her arm, a small gesture of re
CHAPTER 274. Lessons in Control.
The forest was quieter than usual.No thunder, no screams, no clash of Qi against Qi, just the heavy silence that came after too much death.Kirin sat cross legged at the edge of a cliff overlooking the misty expanse of the outskirts. His body ached from exhaustion, his mind still haunted by the echo of the student’s dying breath. He hadn’t spoken to anyone since that moment, not even Rem. He just walked until his feet stopped and the horizon felt far enough away from the blood-soaked clearing he left behind.Now, lightning flickered softly between his fingers, faint as candlelight.He had spent nearly an entire day trying to control it.Ever since the Leviathan fight, his Chaos Lightning had become too volatile, an untamed storm burning through his veins, threatening to devour him from the inside. Every attempt to use it felt like gambling with his life. But he couldn’t stay weak. He refused to.Rem had told him to rest. Kirin didn’t listen.He inhaled deeply, focusing on the faint b
CHAPTER 273. Blood Between Students.
The air in the outskirts had changed.It wasn’t the same stormy wilderness Kirin had stepped into days ago. No, now it smelled different, thicker, heavier. The kind of air that clung to your throat and made you swallow twice before breathing again. Blood had a scent of its own, metallic and sharp, and it mixed disturbingly well with the ozone from lightning strikes.Kirin walked through the fog drenched trees, his boots sinking into wet soil. Rain dripped through the canopy, masking distant screams and clashes of Qi. The forest had become a battleground, not between man and beast, but man against man.The Festival of Indra had turned into open warfare.At first, the competition had been friendly, small duels, quiet rivalries, harmless sabotage. But after the Leviathan’s death and Kirin’s name shooting up the contributor list, envy had sunk its claws deep into people’s hearts. Students started whispering, forming alliances, and then those alliances turned into factions.Now they hunted
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