Unrivaled In The World: Rise of Kaiden Blackwood

73: Evidence.

Smoke hissed from the hood. The front of the car was crushed inward, mangled steel folding around the engine. Sparks spit from the undercarriage, and one headlight flickered before finally dying. The air reeked of fuel, hot rubber, and scorched electronics.

But inside the driver’s seat, someone was still breathing.

Kai exhaled sharply, his eyes flicking open as the crumpled airbag deflated around him. His chest ached. His brow was bleeding. But his bones were intact. His pulse steady.

Just before impact, instinct had taken over.

Not the instinct of a normal man.

The Heavenly Eye behind his right socket had flickered—burning a warning into his nerves a split second before the truck hit. With one surge of raw inner force, he had diverted his spiritual energy to his pressure points—tightening his muscles, bracing his organs, reinforcing skin and bone with qi armor so thin it was nearly invisible.

A technique Caleb called Heaven's Thread.

“Still hurts like hell,” Kai muttered, spitting bl