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Chapter 97: Bones in the Sand.
Kirin woke to pain. A low, gnawing ache that stretched from the base of his spine to the tips of his fingers. His throat was dry, his lips were cracked, and his body felt like it had been scraped against stone for days. He tried to move, but even blinking sent sharp flashes of pain through his body.The air was heavier here. Not just thick with heat or smoke, but heavy like it carried the weight of souls. Every breath felt stolen and the ground felt rough to the touch, jagged sand mixed with ash and bone. That much he could tell. His face was pressed against it.He groaned and sat up slowly. His body protested with every movement that he made, and dark dust clung to his clothes. Cuts lined his arms and shoulders, his blood had dried into dark lines down his skin. He felt weak, drained, like whatever energy had carried him through the fall had finally run out.He looked around.The sky above was a dull reddish grey. No sun, no moon. Just swirling clouds that cracked with silent flashes
Chapter 96. The Endless Pit
The air hit him like a wall.One second Kirin was floating in eerie silence, the next thing, he was falling.The fall ended with a brutal slam, his body hitting cracked stone with a loud thud. Dust and ash exploded outward. He rolled once, twice, before finally skidding to a stop against what felt like sharp rock and scorched earth.Everything ached.Every joint in his body, every nerve. His ears rang from the sudden impact as he lost balance, and he blinked rapidly to get rid of the dust and ash in his eyes. But no matter how many times he blinked, the view didn’t change.Dark.Not the darkness from the night, but an unnatural darkness.Above him, the sky churned with black clouds that looked like smoke trapped with nowhere to go. They moved in slow spirals, casting sickly shadows over everything. Lightning flashed behind them, but it wasn’t the kind he knew. These weren’t clouds made from rain or thunder. These were clouds made from something he didn't know.Ash rained down in thin,
Chapter 95. Black Lightning Reborn.
Kirin had been falling for three more days.Three days of no food, no water, no rest. Just a never ending drop through a world that had no bottom, no walls, and no answers. He didn’t know if his body was even human anymore. He didn’t feel hunger like he used to. Thirst was just a dull ache now, buried under a mountain of questions and hollow grief.But what surprised him the most, more than the lack of pain, more than the silence was that his essence was still there.That shouldn’t have been possible.Seth had taken everything.Kirin had felt his lightning ripped out of him. He had screamed as it was torn from his soul, felt himself die like a part of him was taken away forever, and yet... he could still feel something. It wasn’t lightning but it wasn’t entirely unfamiliar.He didn’t know if that made him lucky or cursed.He stared down at his own body while falling. There was no gravity, but it still felt like down. His arms floated near his sides, his robes torn and scorched from th
Chapter 94. Echoes While Falling.
Kirin was falling.There was no wind in this place, no gravity he could feel, yet his body kept tumbling downward into the black expanse endlessly.Time passed, though he had no way to measure it. Minutes? Hours? Days? Years? It all blurred together into the same numbing stretch of nothing.He tried to scream once, just to see if sound worked here. It didn’t. The moment the sound left his lips, it vanished into the void like a breath into cold water.So he stopped trying and he thought.That was the worst part, there was nothing else to do.No light, no end, no ground. Just himself, and his thoughts.The first ones were about Seth.His brother.Not by blood, but by bond. They had grown together. Trained together. Failed and laughed and bled side by side. Seth had saved his life once, back when they were both twelve and nearly killed by a misfired spell from a higher cultivator.Kirin remembered how Seth had stood in front of him, arms wide, to distract a mountain bare from attacking K
Chapter 93. Into the Void.
His breath hitched in short bursts. He could feel the hollow in his chest where his essence used to live. There was no more lightning, no more storm inside him. It was gone, severed cleanly like it had never been part of him. All that remained was the cold, pulsing presence of something else, something darker, unknown. The foreign energy that had always been trapped behind the seal but now moved through his veins like cold smoke.His body trembled as he collapsed onto one arm, barely holding himself upright. His fingers dug into the dirt, trying to anchor himself to anything real. But it was like grasping at water.Seth stood nearby, arms outstretched, head tilted back.He was glowing.Literally glowing, his skin lit from inside, veins of white and violet light pulsing under his flesh. His mouth opened wide, and a scream ripped out of him, not pain, not fear, but pure twisted joy.“I can feel it!” Seth yelled. “The stars, the patterns, something else... they’re calling! I can see ever
Chapter 92. The Essence Thief.
Kirin’s vision was shaking, colors warping in and out as his body failed to respond, lightning crackled across his skin like wild snakes that had tasted blood. His chest rose in short bursts, pain crushing his ribs with every breath, but what really made his blood run cold was Seth’s voice, laughing, not the laugh of a friend, not the laugh he knew from Academy days, but something broken, something hungry.“Seth...” Kirin managed to whisper, his voice raw, barely more than breath, “What... what are you doing?”Seth’s eyes had changed. There was no warmth, no concern, just hunger. “You still don’t get it, do you? You’re not the chosen one, Kirin, I am. You were born lucky you know? Blessed by a God? Having two damn soul cores? Using the hardest and most powerful element? Being stronger than anyone at your cultivation level... you were always meant to break, to be used by me.”He raised his hand, and the moment he did, lightning surged from Kirin’s body and poured into Seth like a rever
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