57: Ella's Urgent Call.
Author: Red Phoenix.
last update2025-05-13 23:33:22

It had been two full weeks since Kai started training under Caleb, and to say he’d changed would be putting it lightly.

His once casual movements were now sharper, precise, his reflexes honed through endless drills, spiritual resistance sessions, and energy balancing exercises that made him ache in places he didn’t know existed. Gone was the reckless man who once relied solely on instinct. In his place stood someone who understood power, respected it, and wielded it with control.

Each morning began before sunrise with qi circulation routines and stance correction. By midday, he was buried in scrolls filled with techniques, from fire burst displacement to mid-air combat shifts. At night, he sat in medicinal baths, boiling with spiritual herbs that melted the tension from his bones while cleansing his meridians. Caleb had told him this was the way of true cultivators. Kai had called it torture disguised as tradition.

But the results spoke for themselves.

He was no longer in the eighth l
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