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30 - SIGHTLESS EVASION
"You don't even know how to throw a punch with that energy," Ye Canghai warned him."I will figure it out.""Figuring it out usually involves getting your head torn off," the old man pointed out.Zhentian ignored the insult and spread his boots shoulder-width apart.He dropped his hands into a loose, ugly brawler's guard.He threw away every rigid, perfect stance Elder Bai had ever drilled into him.This was not a sparring match in a sunlit courtyard.The Abyssal Warden clicked its massive mandibles together.The sound bounced off the cavern walls and rattled against Zhentian's ribs.The beast dragged its right claw forward, pulling the thick anchor chains through the dirt.It displaced a wall of water the size of a house just by shifting its weight.The resulting current whipped around the room, threatening to sweep them both away.Zhentian planted his feet harder.He commanded the gray liquid iron in his veins to hold him down.The heavy energy responded instantly, anchoring him to
29 - ASSASSIN'S SACRIFICE II
Ye Canghai took a slow, calculated step backward, keeping his body carefully angled toward the advancing monster."Get to the back wall," the old assassin ordered.His voice lacked its usual cruel, mocking tone, replaced entirely by cold professionalism.Zhentian did not retreat a single inch.He watched the Warden slowly raise one of its chained claws, preparing to snap the air right out of the room."It is looking at me," Zhentian pointed out, his voice incredibly steady despite the sheer size of the threat looming over them."Because you smell like the rock you just swallowed," Ye Canghai replied, shifting his grip on the handle of his rusted blade.The current whipped violently around the cavern as the beast shifted its massive weight forward to strike."I can hold my ground against it," Zhentian said, flexing his left hand to test the newly widened meridians in his arm.The simple movement felt smooth and powerful, assuring him that his body would not break under pressure.He did
28 - ASSASSIN'S SACRIFICE I
The rhythmic thudding from the dark trench grew louder with every passing second.The sound was not just a noise echoing in the heavy ocean water.It was a violent physical vibration that traveled through the ancient bedrock and shot straight up through the soles of Zhentian's boots.Small pebbles and loose dirt began to dance erratically across the muddy floor of the hidden cavern.The ocean itself seemed to hold its breath in anticipation of the approaching nightmare.Zhentian did not move, and he did not try to find a place to hide among the shadows.He stood perfectly still in the freezing mud, testing the unfamiliar mechanics of his newly reconstructed body.He trusted the heavy, dense power that was now woven permanently into his bones.A massive, jagged crack suddenly shot across the solid stone ceiling directly above their heads.The noise was deafening, sounding exactly like a mountain breaking in half under its own weight.Thousands of tons of rock began to buckle as an unim
27 - SURVIVAL VACUUM II
The old man stepped into Zhentian’s line of sight, forcing the boy to look at him."Do not pretend that Indigo cage was worth keeping."Zhentian nodded slowly, the truth of the words settling into his mind.He had been crying over a broken glass cup while standing next to a massive lake."How do I fight with this?" Zhentian asked, looking at his bare knuckles."There is no Qi to push outward.""You don't push it outward to impress the judges," Ye Canghai scoffed."You keep the energy inside your muscles and you break your enemy with raw kinetic force."Zhentian frowned, imagining the brutal simplicity of that fighting style.It stripped away all the elegant forms and flashy techniques of the Azure Dragon Hall.It left behind nothing but pure, lethal efficiency."We have lingered here too long," Ye Canghai announced, turning toward the cavern exit."The blood from that Leviathan Spawn is going to draw scavengers."Zhentian reached down and picked up his bone dagger from the mud.The we
26 - SURVIVAL VACUUM I
Zhentian lay face-down in the freezing mud.The weight of the ocean was actively flattening his ribcage.His internal organs ground against each other under millions of tons of water pressure.Ye Canghai stood a few feet away, watching the boy bleed out in the dark.The old assassin did not step forward to offer any help.If the boy could not anchor himself to the world, he deserved to die in the dirt.Zhentian could no longer hear the ocean currents.His consciousness was slipping into a dark, quiet void.But the gray fire running through his veins refused to let its host perish.The hollow void in his chest reacted to the fatal crushing force.It opened like a starving mouth acting on pure survival instinct.A violent magnetic pull erupted from his dying flesh.The dormant gray stone resting in the center of the cavern twitched.It tore through the heavy water, kicking up a massive cloud of silt.The Origin Fragment slammed directly into Zhentian’s chest.There was no bright flash o
25 - ABYSSAL WEIGHT
The sickening snap of his third rib echoed through the freezing water.Zhentian tasted fresh blood as the jagged bone shifted precariously close to his lungs.The explosive pressure inside his chest cavity vibrated with a terrifying hum.He had less than ten seconds before the internal friction blew his torso apart."Consume it!" Ye Canghai roared from the edge of the cavern's gravitational field.The old assassin's voice barely cut through the rushing sound of Zhentian's frantic heartbeat.Zhentian squeezed his eyes shut as the yellow and gray energies waged a suicidal war right behind his sternum.He was thrashing in the mud, letting blind panic dictate the flow of the primordial power.His fear was acting as fuel for the expanding yellow cage.He remembered Ye Canghai's lesson about the predator's mindset from the sparring sessions in the dark.Prey lets fear control them until they exhaust themselves and die.Zhentian forced his body to stop thrashing against the cavern floor.He
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