The sea wind swept broken waves against the reefs. A streak of azure light leaped from afar and plunged straight into the center of the training ground. Chen Wuya stood before the Misaligned Principle Hall, his gaze having just followed off a group of newcomers carrying stone materials, when he suddenly saw that azure glow land and transform into a bronze case. Its surface was mottled with rust, yet it gave off faint pulses of true qi.
He bent down to pick it up. The moment his fingertips touched the case, the Misaligned Force within him gave a slight tremor, as though it had encountered something familiar. His palm grew hot, and the system silently displayed a line of text:
[Detected qi activity of the same origin.]
"Dad!" Chen Yao ran over, clutching a blueprint in her hand. "This is the design for the new hidden mechanism weapon I modified. Can we make the soft spring another half-inch shorter?" She looked up, saw the bronze case, and paused. "Where did that come from?"
Bai Zhi came closer as well. She took the blueprint and glanced over it, but her gaze stopped on the case's surface. Intricate patterns were carved there, their lines twisted like whirlpools—and they faintly corresponded to the trajectories of Misaligned Force spreading beneath the ground.
"These markings..." Before she could finish, Chen Xuan came rushing over from the practice field, panting. "Dad! This pattern is exactly the same as the third-stage qi vortex in the Mispracticed Canglang Art you taught me! I only drew a comparison chart yesterday!"
Chen Wuya lowered his head for a closer look. It was indeed so. Those seemingly chaotic carved marks were actually the pathways of some kind of reverse meridian circulation—the very "Misaligned Meridian Flow" he had created by