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Chapter 43: Desperate Defence
The Void energy rewrote my meridians like acid through paper channels. My bones cracked, reformed, cracked again. Through the agony, I heard my mother screaming my name, but it sounded distant, muffled by the roar of power reshaping me from the inside out.A Void creature lunged at Lin Mei—a writhing mass of tentacles tipped with mouths—and my body moved before my mind could process. My hand, now lined with veins of dark purple energy, passed through its center. The creature didn't die—death was too simple for these things. It ceased, unraveling back into the nothingness it came from."Impossible," Young Master Chen floated higher, away from the expanding breach. "Mortals can't channel Void energy. It should be destroying you."It was. I could feel it—my humanity burning away with each heartbeat. But it was also changing me, evolving my cultivation in ways that shouldn't exist."Form a circle!" I commanded, my voice carrying harmonics t
chapter 42: The Alliance Revealed
The Western Pillar raised one pale hand, and shadows flowed across the compound like spilled ink. Where they touched, flowers withered, wood rotted, and metal corroded. The Zhao family's guards who were still standing aged visibly, their hair whitening, skin wrinkling."Stop!" I stepped forward, but my legs buckled. The poison from the assassin's blade had spread to my chest, making each heartbeat feel like hammering nails into my ribs."Three hundred years," the Northern Pillar said, ice crystallizing in the air around her with each word. "Three hundred years we've been the hidden hand guiding this kingdom's economy. Every major trade route, every significant merchant family, every economic rise and fall—all orchestrated by us."Magnus leaned against a broken pillar, his aged form still trembling from our battle. "Tell them the best part. Tell them about the wars."The Eastern Pillar's stone-grinding voice carried across the compound. "The B
chapter 41: Race To Save Family
My legs burned with each stride, spiritual energy flooding through my meridians in dangerous surges. The forbidden technique Master Shen had shown me—Burning Blood Steps—was destroying my body from the inside out, but it tripled my speed. Four days to Azure Falls City had become two, if my body held together that long.The countryside blurred past, each heartbeat covering fifty yards. Blood ran constantly from my nose now, and my vision flickered between normal and a strange red haze. But I couldn't stop. Magnus's message had a three-day head start. His assassins would already be in position.I crested the final hill before Azure Falls City just as the sun touched the horizon, painting the sky the color of fresh blood. The city spread below me, peaceful in the dying light. No smoke. No screams. Maybe I wasn't too late—A flash of steel in the Chen family compound caught my eye.I pushed harder, my spiritual channels screaming in protest.
chapter 40: The Battle of the soul
The soul chamber's walls pulsed with Magnus's rage, each heartbeat of fury making the formations flicker like dying candles. I pressed my palm against the nearest junction point, feeling the imprisoned souls writhing beneath layers of corrupted spiritual energy."You think you can unmake my work?" Magnus's voice bounced off the impossible geometries of the chamber. Blood ran from the puncture in his palm where my sword fragment had pierced him, but he didn't seem to notice. "Centuries of refinement, boy. Centuries!"His fist crashed into the space where my head had been a heartbeat before. The Ghosting Step saved me, but barely—I could feel my spiritual reserves guttering like a candle in wind. Each use of the technique drained what little energy I had left.I solidified behind a pillar of twisted bone and crystal—remnants of Magnus's earlier experiments. My fingers found another junction point, and I pushed earth element into it, feeling the formation resist like a living thing."Sho
chapter 39
Dark energy erupted around him—not the overwhelming force from before, but still enough to make the air thick and choking. He pulled something from his robes—a black crystal that pulsed with malevolent light."Emergency reserves." He crushed the crystal in his fist, and the energy flowed into him. His wounds closed. His movements became fluid again. "Did you think I wouldn't have contingencies?"He blurred forward. I tried to activate Ghosting Step, but my spiritual energy was depleted. His palm strike caught me center mass, lifting me off my feet. I flew backward, hit the arena wall, and crumpled.Everything hurt. Breathing hurt. Thinking hurt.Magnus approached slowly, savoring the moment. "Your father died begging, you know. Pleading for mercy."Rage. Pure, clean rage that burned through the pain."Liar." I spat blood. "He died protecting others. He died with honor.""Honor?" Magnus laughed. "What good is honor to the
chapter 38: Into the Tower's Heart
I stumbled through Earth Dragon Tower's entrance, my legs threatening to buckle with each step. Blood from my bitten tongue painted my lips red. Lin Mei caught my arm as I swayed."Wei, you're burning up." Her palm pressed against my forehead. "Your spiritual channels—gods, what did you do?""Made him mortal." The words came out slurred. My meridians felt like they'd been scoured with molten wire. "The souls... freed them all."Master Shen's hands probed my spiritual channels, his expression darkening with each passing second. "You've damaged your cultivation base. Severely. The trial is in less than an hour—""I know." I pushed past them toward the washbasin, splashing cold water on my face. In the mirror, a ghost stared back—hollow eyes, blood crusted beneath my nose, skin pale as paper. "Doesn't matter. He's weak now too.""Weak?" Zhang Wei laughed, bitter and sharp. "He still has seventy years of combat experience.""Better than immortal with seventy years of experience." I grabbe
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