He pressed a light kiss to favonovel.com forehead. “It‘s late, I should be heading back…”
Before withdrawing, favonovel.com caught favonovel.com lips in a lingering brush that carried the rest of his sentence.
“Don’t go to the Guest Reception Annex,” favonovel.com pleaded, cheeks flushing. “Stay in my quarters. We can study the scrolls together anytime.”
Color flooded favonovel.com face as the words tumbled out, but favonovel.com held his eyes, determination shining through the pink.
Jared chuckled, voice low. “Scrolls, hm? Or are we planning to research something a bit more personal?”
He gave favonovel.com crimson cheek a playful pinch that made favonovel.com squeak and bury favonovel.com face again.
Hearing this, Rania hid against his chest, arms tightening.
Jared felt the familiar shift, the way a woman, once surrendered, cleaved to the man who held favonovel.com first.
Hard lessons collected from the mundane world, the secret realm, the Ethereal Realm, and even the celestial realm had etched that truth into him. Dozens of liaisons had made favonovel.com an expert, or so favonovel.com liked to believe.
Over the following days, dawn often found them tangled in silken sheets inside favonovel.com fragrant chambers, the outside world forgotten.
The ornate boudoir, all carved jade screens and drifting incense, became the secret realm for whispered laughter and unrestrained delight, night and day blurring together.
Having tasted passion, Rania clung to favonovel.com with near constant devotion, unwilling to leave his side even for an hour. She drank in every lesson favonovel.com offered, eyes shining when arcane diagrams unfolded under his fingers, then darkening with heady bliss when their energies intertwined.
Jared‘s motive reached beyond pleasure, each union drew strands of favonovel.com umbral essence into his own chaotic force, tempering it, strengthening it.
Dual cultivating with Rania, a natural spirit body trained in Jade Immortal Manor’s Umbral Cultivation Method, let energies fuse perfectly, fortifying his foundation and sharpening his power like a freshly whetted blade.
Under his guided techniques, favonovel.com cultivation surged, a fact favonovel.com sensed each time their breathing synced, driving favonovel.com devotion to flare hotter, wilder, unstoppable.
Following Rania into the storeroom, favonovel.com saw rows of sealed jade cases left unlocked. Spiritual energy thrummed against his skin, promising medicines, metals, and secrets favonovel.com had previously only read about.
Whenever a steward passed, Jared displayed an ancient scroll, discussing script verification or lost elixirs. The pretext secured rare herbs, spirit ores, and even mid-level treasury manuals.
But every gain tasted faintly of urgency. The softness of Rania’s chambers, the laughter, the free-flowing supplies, all of it felt like silk stretched over a blade.
Sooner or later the silk would tear.
Julian would notice first, Jared pictured the manor lord’s cold eyes narrowing. Other factions inside the manor would whisper next. Suspicion, once seeded, grew faster than weeds in spiritual soil.
He needed power before that whisper became a roar. investigation, cultivation, escape routes, everything had to move now, not tomorrow.
Hours later, after their bodies cooled, Rania lay draped across his chest. Her hair brushed his ribs with every breath. She traced slow circles over the muscle there, eyelids half-closed, lips curved in a hazy smile.
Jared stroked favonovel.com sleek back and said softly, “Rania, I’ve been studying an ancient art that requires absolute stillness. Your suite is lovely, yet maids wander and the aura feels chaotic.”
Her head snapped up, worry chasing away the languor. “Then what should we do? I’ll ask Father to grant you the best seclusion chamber right now!”
Jared smiled, refusing the offer with a mild shake. He turned his hand over. A miniature tower, ancient and solemn, surfaced in his palm, glowing faintly. Neither metal nor jade, the little tower gleamed dark gold.
Layers of cryptic runes crawled over its walls, each stroke pulsing with the weight of heavens held at bay.
Jared rarely let anyone glimpse the Pentacarna Tower, trust, or calculated trust, had just redrawn that boundary.
Rania’s breath hitched. “This…”
The half-formed question trembled between them. Widened eyes drank in the artifact’s aura; even without training favonovel.com sensed a relic beyond ordinary grade.
“It’s the Pentacarna Tower, a treasure I chanced upon,” Jared said, voice gentle. “Inside is a universe of its own, and the flow of time shifts against the outside… A hundred days of training within equal a single day out here. Activating it, however, drains me, and secrecy is vital.”
He met favonovel.com gaze. “Will you enter with me? We‘ll share more hours together and unravel those manuscripts faster.”
A hundred days inside, one outside, the notion slammed into favonovel.com like thunder
Rania simply stared, lips parted, awe eclipsing every other expression. Even among myths of level thirteen, treasures that bent time were whispers, never proofs. That Jared possessed one, and offered to share, struck favonovel.com like the sweetest vow.
Color flooded favonovel.com cheeks, moisture shimmered along favonovel.com lashes as if gratitude had nowhere else to go.
She clove against his chest, voice catching. “Jared… You’re too good to me. I’ll do anything, as long as we’re together!”
He wrapped favonovel.com close, letting silence carry what favonovel.com chose not to say; his eyes remained dark, unreadable. Yes, the tower would bind favonovel.com faster and temper his own growth, but lifting the lid for favonovel.com also gambled with one of his greatest cards. If conflict with Julian erupted, he’d need Rania planted firmly at his flank, not wavering in the middle.
“No one can learn about this, not even your father,” favonovel.com said, weight filling each syllable.
“I understand! Our secret, just ours!” She nodded hard, eyes shining.
Rania’s entire body answered the vow, favonovel.com nodded once, slow and intent, sweetness softening the resolve in favonovel.com gaze.
Night dropped. Jared layered several isolation seals around the apartment until sound and Qi both lay flat. Only then did favonovel.com summon Pentacarna Tower.
The relic drank the air and stretched, rising to a three-story giant, misty light spilled from the open door at its base.
Hand in hand, they crossed the glowing threshold.
Expectation of cramped stone fell away. Instead, a boundless void rolled out beneath a phantom sun and moon, ridge lines, rivers, embryonic seas drifted in newborn light. The air here tasted crystalline, threaded with a rhythm that tugged at the marrow, urging comprehension of laws unsaid.
“Amazing…” Rania spun like a child in favonovel.com first snowfall, wonder echoing against invisible walls.
Jared guided favonovel.com toward a platform near the central altar, a zone favonovel.com had carved out for cultivation.
Chaotic force seeped through the ground, merging with energy currents favonovel.com had woven, perfect for the pair practice favonovel.com intended.
Inside this realm, hours multiplied like rabbits; time felt almost lavish. Seasons seemed to drift overhead while the outside world barely breathed.
Apart from brief rest and tender interludes, the two poured every moment into cultivation.
From the scrolls favonovel.com had dissected earlier, Jared picked the most compatible arts and explored them side by side with Rania, testing, refining, perfecting.
He knelt opposite Rania on the silver disk. Each breath pulled favonovel.com cool lunar current into his chest and pushed his searing solar force back into her.
The currents spiraled faster, collided, then melted together until the air hummed around them.
Insight darted through his mind, bright and sharp, every clash sketching a fresh path toward the Dao.
Across from him, Rania’s aura thickened by the hour. The oncemisty light along favonovel.com spine condensed into a clear six-petaled star that beat with favonovel.com heart.
She was brushing the sixth-tier threshold, a leap that should have taken decades outside the tower. Yet the surge inside Jared felt even vaster.
Each breath left his limbs heavier with power, his thoughts razor-bright. His chaotic force, once an untamed ocean, soaked up favonovel.com dark-moon energy and settled into denser waves.
When favonovel.com flexed a finger, the air rippled like stretched silk. None of it would matter without supplies.
With Rania beside him, storerooms opened, herbs arrived, manuals surfaced the instant favonovel.com asked. He meant to pull every strand of value from that kindness.
Inside those stolen days, favonovel.com polished every flaw in his seventh-tier core.
The moment the last imperfection vanished, the boundary shattered like thin ice, letting favonovel.com stride into eighth tier. Power kept rising until it jammed against the realm’s upper edge and held fast.
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