Crushing

The Cultivation Room was very quiet, with only the faint sound of air stirring as Soul Power flowed.

Xue Lingyun sat cross-legged on a cushion. The Soul Power within his body completed its final major circulation along the meridian path of the Dharma Cleansing Marrow and Changing Tendons Scripture. His already steady aura became even more profound, like a bottomless cold pool without the slightest ripple leaking out.

He slowly opened his eyes. There was no unnecessary emotion in his dark gaze as he clearly reviewed his conversation with Huo Yuhao and the two disturbances he had witnessed.

More than anyone else in this world, he knew the origin of the Gray Bead within Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness—it was Electrolux, the Undead Disaster who had once roamed the continent, and one of Huo Yuhao's most important future opportunities in the Original Work.

Before this, however, that mass of gray energy had remained silent and still, like a dead object.

He knew something was inside, but he had never seen it alive. Without anything to compare it to, he had no way of knowing whether it was asleep or simply always like this.

Only after today's two disturbances did he truly "see" what it looked like when it came alive.

And those two disturbances had thoroughly confirmed his judgment.

The first disturbance occurred when Huo Yuhao erupted with that ultimate obsession for vengeance, with destruction as its end.

That blood-tempered hatred was too intense, like a red-hot blade stabbing straight into the deepest part of his Sea of Consciousness.

At that exact moment, the Gray Bead trembled for the first time—not a passive shudder, but an instinctive response awakened by the aura of its kind.

Electrolux had once been a Child of Light before hatred dragged him into darkness, turning