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14 - IMPOSSIBLE II
Zhentian squeezed his eyes shut, letting the old man's taunt wash over him without reacting.He resumed the grueling ascent, pulling himself up inch by agonizing inch.The air grew noticeably colder as he put more distance between himself and the boiling vents.The freezing water of the upper trench began to seep down the wall, chilling his bare arms and numbing his bleeding fingers.He welcomed the cold, knowing it would help constrict his blood vessels and keep the venom trapped in his lower leg.He reached a section of the wall where the stone smoothed out, offering very few places to grip.He shoved his fingers into a thin vertical crack, trusting the friction to hold his weight as he stepped up.His left boot slipped on a patch of wet moss, sliding off the rock face entirely.Zhentian dropped a few inches, his full body weight suddenly hanging solely from the fingertips of his left hand.A sharp spike of adrenaline flooded his system, and his heart immediately began to pound agai
13 - IMPOSSIBLE I
The icy numbness raced up his calf long before the scorpion disappeared into the thick sulfurous smoke.Zhentian stared down at his right leg, watching the muscle twitch involuntarily beneath his torn trousers.He tried to wiggle his toes, but the limb refused to answer the command.It was a total disconnect, as if the bottom half of his leg had simply ceased to exist.He pressed his fingers against his own neck, feeling his pulse hammering wildly against his skin in the aftermath of the geyser eruption.The Azure Dragon Hall taught its disciples to identify poisons by their immediate symptoms.A localized paralytic that moved this fast was a neurotoxin, and it was currently using his own rushing bloodstream as a highway.If he let his panic control him, his racing heart would pump the venom directly into his chest within three minutes.Once it reached his heart, his lungs would stop working, and he would suffocate right there on the burning rocks.Zhentian closed his eyes and pushed
12 - LABYRINTH OF HEAT II
He paused at the edge of the bridge, spotting a massive scorpion resting directly in the middle of the narrow crossing.The beast was perfectly still, soaking in the thermal energy from the magma river beneath it."There is one blocking the path," Zhentian reported softly, his eyes locked on the deadly, curved stinger raised above the creature's back."Then move it," Ye Canghai suggested simply."How?" Zhentian asked, exasperation bleeding into his hushed tone."I do not have the strength to punch through that armor with one hand.""A true killer never relies on punching a wall when he can just open a door," the old man lectured from the dark."Use the environment, boy."Zhentian frowned, scanning the cavern around the resting beast for anything he could use to his advantage.He noticed a cluster of loose, jagged stones resting near the edge of a violently bubbling geyser just across the magma river.He picked up a small piece of debris from the ground near his hand, weighing the heav
11 - LABYRINTH OF HEAT I
Dozens of heavily armored Trench Scorpions stopped their restless crawling across the dark red rocks at the exact same moment.They all turned their eyeless, plated heads toward the spot where Zhentian had just fallen from the ceiling.A chorus of sharp, rhythmic clicks filled the heavy water as the beasts snapped their massive pincers in unison.Zhentian lay flat against the scorching stone, his heart hammering against his ribs like a trapped bird desperately trying to escape."Stop thrashing around down there," Ye Canghai’s voice drifted down from the black shaft above.The old man sounded incredibly bored, his voice funneling perfectly down the narrow fault line like an acoustic tube."I am not moving," Zhentian hissed back, keeping his face pressed firmly into the burning dirt."Your heart is beating so fast I can feel the vibrations all the way up here," the assassin noted dryly.Zhentian swallowed the bitter taste of sulfur filling his mouth, watching the swarm of monsters slowl
10 - ASSASSIN'S PRESCRIPTION II
Zhentian followed closely, adjusting his steps to mimic the way Ye Canghai moved through the dense water.The old man seemed to glide over the mud without disturbing a single grain of dirt or kicking up any debris.Zhentian focused heavily on his own feet, placing them carefully to avoid snapping any hidden twigs of coral.The silence between them stretched out, broken only by the distant, low rumble of the ocean currents shifting above.He watched how Ye Canghai blended into the shadows, realizing the old man was always positioning himself near cover."You move like you are always being hunted," Zhentian observed softly."Everything is hunted eventually," Ye Canghai replied, keeping his eyes on the path ahead.They finally stopped at the edge of a massive, vertical cliff that plunged into absolute darkness.Zhentian stood near the precipice, looking down into the yawning black chasm beneath his boots.He could not see the bottom, but the water temperature was noticeably colder near t
9 - ASSASSIN'S PRESCRIPTION I
Ye Canghai’s threat lingered in the freezing water long after the actual words were spoken.Zhentian stared up at the old man from his place in the mud.He did not argue or offer empty promises about doing better next time.He simply nodded once."Good," Ye Canghai said, stepping backward into the shadows of the trench."Now fix your shoulder before it sets wrong and cripples you forever."Zhentian shifted his weight, biting back a groan as the broken collarbone ground against itself."Without Qi to numb the nerves, you are going to feel every single movement," Ye Canghai added from the dark."I know," Zhentian replied, his voice barely a rough rasp.He reached his good hand across his chest to feel the jagged lump protruding under his cold skin.The bone had snapped cleanly in two when he initially hit the surface of the ocean.He needed to push the overlapping pieces back into proper alignment immediately.He took a shallow breath, filling his lungs with the tiny amount of oxygen fi
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