The door to the Dao Fusion Chamber was opened from the inside.
Saint Ye and Hua Qi had kept watch outside for an entire day and night.
The instant Lin Heng walked out, Saint Ye was the first to see something was off. He set down the teacup in his hand, narrowed his eyes, and looked him over from head to toe.
His aura had sunk.
Not the kind of heaviness forced down under pressure, but a true drop, like a stone falling into deep water, no longer sending ripples outward.
"You refined the Age Dao into yourself?"
Lin Heng flexed his wrist and nodded.
"More than that." He lowered his head to look at his legs, then stamped on the ground. All sensation in his legs had returned. "My realm rose too."
Hua Qi leaned in, probed his aura, and her expression changed at once. "Straight from late Return to Void to the peak? This guy..."
"I didn't waste those Heaven and Earth Stones." Lin Heng shrugged calmly.
Lin Wenyue stood at the side without speaking, the corners of his mouth tugging upward. In the end, he could not hold it in.
Lin Heng took a few steps forward.
Strangely enough, after refining the Age Dao, even the act of walking itself felt a little different.
With every step, it was as if the soles of his feet were treading some kind of trajectory. In the air, extremely faint ripples spread out, vanishing in an instant, so quickly that even the ground had no time to leave any trace.
Hua Qi stared for a couple of moments, then suddenly let out a soft snort of laughter.
"Oh, there's even a bit of divine charm now."
"What divine charm?" Lin Heng asked, puzzled.
"Divinity." Hua Qi ground out those two