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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
Chapter 426
"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
Chapter 425
Throughout the day, Kael's room looked like it belonged to a physician working himself hard.In the perception of those watching from outside, Kael sat at the desk with several sheets of paper in front of him, occasionally holding his head, occasionally crossing something out, occasionally standing and pacing from one end of the room to the other like someone working through a difficult problem.The perfect image of a Divine Physician pushing his entire mind to find a cure for a rare illness.Of course, it was all an illusion.Behind the layer of the Unawakened Dream Illusion Technique he had set up carefully since morning, the real Kael was sitting cross-legged in the center of the room with his eyes closed, absorbing spiritual energy from the surrounding environment and storing it slowly into his dantian. He was using this time to rest completely, a far more productive use of it than pretending to think hard.---Night arrived slowly. The spiritual lanterns in the outer corridor dim
Chapter 424
It didn't take long before the room door was knocked and several servants came in one by one, carrying trays that barely fit in two hands.They set everything down on the large table in the middle of the room, bowed, then left.Kael looked at the spread in front of him.Venison braised in fragrant mountain mushroom broth. Slices of blue river fish found only in streams at a certain elevation. A bone broth clear in color but dense with spiritual energy you could feel from a meter away. Several types of vegetables with slightly luminous leaves, stir-fried in oil pressed from rare lotus seeds. White rice with grains larger than usual, harvested from fields planted in soil that had been absorbing thousands of years of spiritual energy.And in the center of it all, a plate of steamed black mushrooms spotted with gold that even fully cooked still released an aroma that made the surrounding air feel fresher.This was not ordinary food. This was the best the Demon Sect's kitchen had to offer.
Chapter 423
Kael almost couldn't control his expression when he heard that. He hadn't expected this traitor to be sharp enough to figure it out.She managed to draw the right conclusion from just one incident? Impressive.But Kael held his composure. On the surface, he furrowed his brow in a way that looked genuinely confused, the expression of someone who had just heard a name they had never encountered before."No." His tone was easy, his hand still holding out grains of rice toward the small bird on the chair back. "My name is Gao Changgong. And who is Mo Tianjue?"Lou Bingxin stared at him hard. Her eyes ran across Kael's face, searching for a crack, searching for a small twitch in the jaw muscles, a blink that came too fast, a shift in the pupils, anything that showed a lie. She had done this to thousands of people over thousands of years, but there was nothing. The face in front of her was as clean as the surface of a lake that had never had a stone thrown into it."You visited the undergro
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