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Gu Yanhao found his disciple in the crowd and shouted immediately. "You were the one watching Rong Danian. Bring him here now."The young man nodded and ran.The crowd waited.Inside the Treasury, the sound of impacts continued one after another, rhythmic and relentless, like someone who had already decided nothing would stop them before the job was done.BOOM. BOOM.The young man came back less than two minutes later, his breathing unsteady."Elder Gu." His voice dropped. "Rong Danian isn't where he was. I searched every spot he usually passes through. He's nowhere."Gu Yanhao stared at him sharply. "Nowhere?""He's vanished, Elder Gu!"A brief silence fell over the crowd, then all eyes turned to Lou Bingxin.Lou Bingxin felt something run through her chest that she rarely felt. Not just worry. It was more than that.Rong Danian had vanished. Someone wearing her face was inside. And from the sounds still echoing behind that closed door, the protective array was collapsing one layer a
Chapter 430
Lou Bingxin took long strides through the northern corridor toward the Treasury.The three guards standing in front of the large spiritually reinforced door bowed the moment the black-robed figure appeared at the end of the hallway."Miss Lou Bingxin."Lou Bingxin walked past them without slowing. "Make sure no one enters. I need to check something.""As you wish, Miss Lou Bingxin."The large door opened, and Lou Bingxin stepped inside. Without looking back, she closed it from within.The three guards exchanged a brief glance.The Treasury door had never been closed from the inside. The unwritten rule had been in place since the previous generation, whoever went in left the door open until they came out. But this was Miss Lou Bingxin. It wasn't their place to question it.They returned to their posts.---Inside the Treasury, Lou Bingxin's skin shifted.The Faceless layer softened and moved, and within a few seconds Lou Bingxin's face was gone, replaced by Kael's, looking calmly at th
Chapter 429
Rong Danian was crouching near the well in the back courtyard, refilling two buckets with movements that had become entirely automatic, the way someone moves when they've done the same thing every day for years without ever thinking about it. His hands worked on their own, his mind somewhere else entirely.Nothing about the scene drew any attention. An ordinary servant filling buckets. Something that happened dozens of times a day in the same courtyard.Kael stood in the corner of the courtyard, one shoulder resting casually against the wall, watching the man with the expression of someone taking in a perfectly ordinary sight.On his shoulder, a mosquito perched in silence.Kael observed for a moment, mapping who was within roughly a hundred meters of the courtyard. A few servants in the corridor near the kitchen. One disciple standing guard at a junction. Three people inside a room on the left side whose voices came through faintly.He then raised two fingers, and the Unawakened Drea
Chapter 428
The next morning, Kael's routine ran the same as usual.A short walk, breakfast, then to Wu Shengming's room for the regular checkup. Lou Bingxin stood in her usual spot, watching with an expression that was never quite fully neutral whenever her eyes landed on Kael.Kael didn't make anything of it.He did his job the same way as the day before, methodical and professional, a remedy that was nothing more than paracetamol to ease the pain, a few brief words of explanation to Lou Bingxin about a condition that hadn't changed much, and then he left.Meanwhile, Xiao Peng was making his rounds, not in the form of a small bird, but something far smaller.---A tiny mosquito drifted slowly through the main palace corridor, no different from the mosquitoes that occasionally turned up in the damp rooms on the eastern side.Nobody paid it any attention. Nobody needed to.Inside that small body, Xiao Peng moved in a way different from the night before. As a bird, he still had a shape conspicuous
Chapter 427
Kael didn't start right away.He walked to the desk, picked up two chairs, and set them facing each other in the middle of the room. He sat in one, then nodded toward the other.Xiao Peng sat down."First, I need you to understand something fundamental," said Kael. "Black energy is not your enemy. It's not a poison that needs to be fought. People who fail to tame it always fail for the same reason, they try to overpower it."Xiao Peng listened closely."Black energy is like a fire that has been left burning for too long with no direction. Wild, unstable, and its first instinct is always to push outward. If you face it head-on, it will push back twice as hard. If you suppress it, it will find another way out." Kael paused for a moment. "What you have to do is talk to it."Xiao Peng furrowed his brow slightly."What do you mean?""Go into your dantian. Find the black energy. Don't touch it, don't push it, don't do anything at all. Just look." Kael held his gaze. "Do it now."Xiao Peng c
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"We'll stop here for tonight."Kael stood and stretched his back. "Get some rest. Tomorrow I'll teach you how to tame the black energy and turn it into silver energy."Xiao Peng's eyes lit up immediately. His entire body felt full of new strength he hadn't yet fully explored, and his mind was already turning toward what might be possible if that energy were refined even further.He wanted to say he hadn't felt this good in fifteen hundred years, and that tonight was too precious to spend sleeping.But it was the Grand Leader's order, so there was no refusing.Xiao Peng nodded. "Understood, Grand Leader.""You sleep on the floor," Kael added, pointing to the corner of the room. "There's only one bed. That's fine, isn't it?"Xiao Peng glanced at the corner being pointed to, then back at Kael, with the expression of someone who felt the question didn't need to be asked at all."Not at all, Grand Leader. I've been sleeping on mud for fifteen hundred years. Sleeping on a floor is already a
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