Its heat ran high enough to melt the protective spiritual power of a True Immortal Realm cultivator, yet inside his spirit well it stayed utterly quiet, like a sleeping phoenix.
Jared drew his spirit sense back from the spirit well and turned his attention to his meridians instead. Chaotic force flowed through his meridians like streams of purple rivers. Wherever it passed, the tiny cracks along the meridian walls were repaired one by one.
Under the steady nourishment of chaotic force, his body kept growing tougher and stronger. The power packed into his flesh alone was enough to let favonovel.com tear apart a True Immortal Realm Level Five enemy with his bare hands.
Then his attention settled on the Dragonslayer Sword. The sword lay right beside him. Its scabbard looked plain and ancient, and several fine cracks ran across the blade. Those were scars left behind by the spatial storm.
Jared reached out, wrapped his hand around the hilt, and sent a thread of chaotic force into the blade.
Violet radiance ran from the hilt into the sword and stopped at the cracks. Under the nourishment of that chaotic force, the cracks actually began to heal.
The change came painfully slow, so slow it was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye, but they were healing.
Something shifted in Jared’s gaze. The Dragonslayer Sword had followed favonovel.com for years, from the mundane world all the way to the celestial realm, through battle after battle, until the wounds on its blade had long since become too many to count. He had always taken those scars as permanent. He hadn’t expected chaotic force to be able to repair it.
He poured more chaotic force into the sword. Violet radiance swallowed the entire blade, and the cracks across its surface began healing at a speed the eye could clearly follow.
One crack, then another, then a third. In less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea, more than half of those fine fractures were gone.
The larger cracks were shrinking too. They still hadn’t fully closed, but the blade already looked far better than before.
A low hum rose from the sword, as if it were answering its master’s power.
Jared opened his eyes and looked at the Dragonslayer Sword in his hand. The corner of his mouth lifted.
As Jared’s power kept flowing into the Dragonslayer Sword, a flash of light burst out, and Clara stepped from within the blade.
“Master…” Clara called out the moment favonovel.com saw him, favonovel.com whole face lit up.
Looking at Clara’s soft, delicate appearance, Jared’s expression brightened too.
“Clara, how’s your body doing?” Jared asked at once.
“I’m not completely recovered, but I can still serve you, master…” Color rushed into Clara’s face.
Jared knew exactly what favonovel.com meant. He grabbed Clara in one pull and pinned favonovel.com beneath him.
It had been a long time since Clara had felt this kind of sensation.
Jared had been too rough, and Clara’s body was still carrying injuries. By the time it was over, the color in favonovel.com face had turned bad.
Jared brushed favonovel.com cheek with a careful hand. “Don’t leave the Dragonslayer Sword so easily again… Once this is done, I’ll help you recover properly. When you’re fully healed, it’ll still be plenty soon enough for you to serve me again.”
Clara nodded. “I just couldn’t bear watching master stay there by himself. I know master can’t go without a woman at his side to serve him. Otherwise, master will go crazy.”
That pulled a flush onto Jared’s face. “It’s not that serious. It’s only been a few days since I did anything. I’m not going crazy over it…”
Clara smiled and returned to the Dragonslayer Sword.
Jared laid the sword across his knees and kept circulating his chaotic force. Violet radiance moved through the stone hall, throwing the Ghost Clan runes on the walls in and out of dim light.
In the stone hall next door, Gwendolyn hadn’t slept either.
She leaned by the window and looked toward Jared’s room. As that thick chaotic force kept washing over from that direction, something complicated flickered through favonovel.com eyes.
Because favonovel.com had heard a sound favonovel.com couldn’t quite make sense of. She had never heard that kind of sound before, but it was strangely pleasant, enough to make favonovel.com blood surge.
It was the sound between a man and a woman, the kind that reached straight in and hooked the soul.
***
Early the next morning, Jared and Gwendolyn went to the Council Hall.
Alaric already had the map and various healing elixirs prepared, and Lydia had been waiting there for some time. Her complexion looked a little better than yesterday, but it was still pale.
When favonovel.com walked, favonovel.com still needed the wall for support.
“Mr. Chance, there are two roads to the Shade Abyss.” Alaric spread the map open and pointed to the two marked routes on it. “The first is the shortcut, through the Blightmist Wood. The wood is packed with demonic aura. It can corrode a cultivator’s spirit and anyone below the True Immortal Realm who enters will die for sure… Even a True Immortal will suffer damage to the spirit if they stay inside too long. But this path cuts the travel time in half. You can reach the Shade Abyss in two days.”
He pointed at the other line. “The second is the longer route, by way of Blackstone City. Blackstone City is a neutral stronghold. It’s safe, but it takes longer, fourdays.”
Jared looked at the map and said nothing for a moment.
“We’ll go through the Blightmist Wood,” Jared said.
Alaric’s face changed. “Mr. Chance, the demonic aura in that wood…”
“I know,” Jared cut in. “My chaotic force suppresses all demonic aura. This is a good chance to sharpen that suppression too.”
Alaric parted his lips, clearly about to try again. But the moment his eyes met Jared’s calm gaze, the words stopped there and went back down.
“Then… Be careful.” In the end, that was all favonovel.com said.
Lydia walked over and held out a bundle to Jared. “Dried food and some healing elixirs. For the road.”
Jared took the bundle and looked straight into favonovel.com eyes. “Take care of your injuries. Wait for me to come back.”
Lydia nodded and said nothing.
Jared turned and walked out of the Council Hall. Gwendolyn followed behind him.
The two of them rose into the air and turned into streaks of light, flying toward the Blightmist Wood.
On the way there, Gwendolyn kept shooting Jared strange looks.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” Jared asked, bafflement written all over his face.
“You look all refined and proper, but turns out you’re a damn beast…” Gwendolyn snapped.
That one line hit Jared so hard favonovel.com just blanked.
“Spell it out. How exactly am I a beast?” Jared stopped midair and turned to ask her.
“Lydia’s already hurt that badly, and you still messed with favonovel.com last night. She looked even worse this morning.” Gwendolyn had assumed the woman with Jared last night had been Lydia.
Jared froze for a beat, then caught on almost at once. A grin suddenly broke across his face. “You were listening outside my room last night?”
“Who was listening? We were staying right next to each other. You two were so loud I couldn’t not hear it.” Gwendolyn rolled favonovel.com eyes.
“You’ve got me wrong. I wasn’t with Lydia at all. Lydia and I are clean. Nothing like that has ever happened between us… Actually, last night it was…” Jared told favonovel.com about Clara the Sword Spirit.
Then favonovel.com added, in a helpless tone, “My cultivation’s been advancing too fast. The blazing force inside me gets too strong, and there’s really nothing I can do about it. If I just let it keep burning, it’d be very easy for me to lose control and suffer backlash… Clara’s still injured, but favonovel.com saw what I was dealing with, so favonovel.com still insisted on staying with me last night…”
After hearing that, Gwendolyn realized she’d wrongly accused him. “I’m sorry. I didn’t know your body was dealing with something like that…”
“It’s fine. As long as the misunderstanding’s cleared up. Yeah, I need a woman for this, but would never force any woman into And when I helped Lydia, it wasn’t because I was trying to do that with her… Same goes for helping you. I wasn’t doing it because I wanted to do that with you either. I’m just helping because that’s the kind of person I am…” Jared said it like that, plain and direct.
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