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459: The Valley Responds
Three hours passed in what felt like a single breath.Abigail remained seated, unmoving, her posture straight and steady, her breathing slow and even. Sweat rolled down her temples, soaking into the ground beneath her, yet she didn’t stir. Her mind was locked inward, repeating the same truth again and again, not loudly, not desperately, but with calm certainty.I am a sword.At first, nothing happened.Then something shifted.A faint pressure stirred around her, subtle enough to be missed by anyone less sensitive. The air around her body tightened, as though invisible lines were being drawn and sharpened. Her presence changed, no longer soft, no longer merely human. There was an edge to her now, restrained but unmistakable.Suddenly... Hummm...The sword resting across her lap trembled.It wasn’t violent and it wasn’t chaotic. It was a gentle vibration, like a blade waking from sleep. The sound was low and steady, carrying a resonance that spread outward in ripples.The guardian’s eye
458: Sword Intent.
If Abigail had known what this place truly was, shock would have been the least of her reactions.This valley was not some random death zone, nor was it merely a training ground meant to temper cultivators through danger. It was an inheritance site, one of the core legacies of the realm they were currently in. A place designed by ancient sword cultivators for one singular purpose to guide, and not to destroy.Normally, the rules here were clear and unbreakable.Those who entered would be assessed.The guardians would match their strength.They would be guided step by step, never pushed beyond what their bodies or minds could endure.Once a cultivator reached the limit of what their current realm allowed, they would be stopped politely, told they had reached the end of their path for now, and escorted out. No crippling injuries, no near-death lessons and no cruelty.This valley was never meant to break people.But then Zora had arrived.And Zora had rewritten the rules.She didn’t nego
457: A Thousand Blades Without a Sword
On Abigail’s side, the world felt different.She stood at the edge of the valley, staring down into its depths, and sighed softly. The air here was heavier, carrying a faint metallic scent mixed with dust and something ancient that made her instincts prickle. She wasn’t sure if this place was truly a death valley in the literal sense, but one thing was undeniable .. this was not a good place.Not for the weak and not for the careless.The moment she took her first step forward, the scenery shifted.With a low, grinding sound, a massive gate materialized before her eyes as if it had always been there, simply hidden from unworthy sight. It was tall, old, and scarred by countless battles, its surface etched with faded sword marks that spoke of challengers who had come before her. Some likely walked out stronger. Others… perhaps not at all.Standing before the gate was a man.He looked filthy, almost laughably so. His clothes were tattered, his hair unkempt, his beard wild and uneven. Dus
446: Resolve, and Training
With the beast standing guard beside her, Emily slowly regained consciousness.Her lashes fluttered first, then her fingers twitched against the cold forest floor. Pain followed next, dull, throbbing, and everywhere but it was no longer sharp enough to drag her back into darkness. The creature she’d nicknamed Trouble was crouched nearby, its body tense, eyes sharp, ears flicking at every sound in the forest as if daring anything foolish enough to come closer.For a moment, Emily just lay there, staring up through the broken canopy of leaves and branches, watching sunlight pierce through in thin golden lines. She was alive.That alone felt like an achievement.After about an hour, strength slowly returned to her limbs. She pushed herself up with a quiet grunt, wincing as sore muscles protested the movement. The battlefield around her was still stained with violence, trampled earth, broken shrubs, and the massive corpse of the beast she had killed earlier, already beginning to cool.She
455: Fainted.
Without any other choice left to her, Emily forced herself to commit.Right here.Right now.She tightened her grip on the whip, shoulders tense but grounded, and made a silent vow, not to move forward, not to advance deeper into the forest, not to pretend she was ready until she had learned the other techniques Zora had given her. The defensive ones. The ones she had foolishly pushed aside.She was scared. Terrified, even.Her legs felt a little weak, and her palms were slick with sweat. Fear buzzed through her nerves like static, sharp and insistent. But fear didn’t mean she could stop. Fear didn’t mean she could run. It only meant she had to act despite it.The beast didn’t give her time to reconsider.With a snarl that shook the nearby trees, the massive wolf-like creature lunged and in that instant...Trouble moved.The beast that had been wandering around like an idiot moments ago suddenly transformed. Its playful demeanor vanished, replaced by raw ferocity. With a sharp growl, i
Chapter 454: No Way Back
Just as panic started to crawl up her spine, Emily forced herself to breathe.She looked around, really looked around hard and then it hit her.“Oh,” she whispered hoarsely.This wasn’t random.She hadn’t angered anything.She had trespassed.The realization settled heavy and cold in her gut. The trees here were denser, the undergrowth trampled in strange circular patterns, bones half-buried beneath leaves, claw marks gouged into trunks, not careless scratches, but deliberate warnings. She had walked straight into someone else’s territory and stayed long enough to be noticed.As someone versed in different fields, especially zoology, Emily understood this better than she wished she did. Different worlds or not, beasts followed the same rules. Territory meant survival. Intrusion meant threat. And threats were eliminated.It didn’t matter that these weren’t creatures she’d studied in books. Behavior didn’t change just because evolution took a strange turn.Her first instinct screamed at
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