"Ah!"
Jesse let out a short cry, one of pain mixed with relief, as he felt something heavy and restless that had bound him all this time vanish completely from within his body.
Guided by the balance array, the extracted power of the Word Spirit ultimately condensed into a walnut-sized "Balance Crystal," its interior seemingly filled with transparent nebulae swirling and shifting constantly between four colors, before falling into Wu Heng's hand.
The light of the array slowly faded.
Lying there, Jesse felt weaker than ever, as though he had just run a marathon, yet accompanying that weakness was an indescribable sense of lightness and freedom.
The oppressive sensation that had weighed upon his soul and made him feel so burdened was gone.
He tried to move a sheet of paper as he had before, but he could no longer sense any extraordinary power at all. He had truly become an ordinary person.
The safehouse door was abruptly thrown open. Supported by Dean and Sam, Mark and Katherine staggered inside.
"Jesse!"
"My child!"
Tears streamed down the couple's faces as they rushed heedlessly into the array, where the residual energy had yet to fully dissipate, and tightly embraced the weak but clear-eyed Jesse.
The family of three wept in each other's arms. All their fear, separation, and pain turned, in that moment, into the relief of having regained what they had lost and a silent love.
Their family was finally truly reunited.
Wu Heng sealed the "Balance Crystal" containing all of Jesse's former power inside an absolutely shielded box constructed from multilayered Incantation metal and the "power of balance," then hid it in the deepest part of the manor.
He solemnly promised Jesse and the Turner couple that he would properly arrange this power.
To provide Jesse with a truly