The Thunder Pool of Old Appeared

"Almost certainly. But for now, we can't be sure whether the cultivators here can read the meaning of the traces left by Threefold Self-Reflection."

Hearing the Ancient Web's confident deduction, Li Shun's breath caught for half a beat. His expression darkened, then cleared.

He held no illusions.

After only a few days at the Imperial Academy, he had glimpsed the leopard through a narrow tube and seen the terrifying, unfathomable foundations of Great Qian's highest institution of learning. This was where the kingdom's finest and most formidable forces gathered.

Plenty of people in the world knew of the Confucian School's Threefold Self-Reflection ability. If using it truly left marks on the Thunder Jade Palace, the Imperial Academy would undoubtedly decipher them.

He thought back to every time he had used [Threefold Self-Reflection] without restraint since arriving in this world, desperate to survive one crisis after another.

Each reversal of time, each point to which the world reset, each turn of the cycle... It was entirely possible that the academy suspended high in the heavens had recorded every last detail.

A chill crept through Li Shun.

"The only thing that counts as good news for me is that even if the Imperial Academy has discovered from those marks that Heaven and Earth were reset again and again, they don't know who did it."

"I'm still hidden in the shadows."

"Before, my cultivation was low, and I lived on the kingdom's frontier. I was like a speck of dust between heaven and earth, too insignificant to draw their gaze."

"But now..." Li Shun looked around the seemingly tranquil courtyard, a trace of wariness flashing in his eyes. "I've walked straight in under their noses."

"It seems I'd best avoid using Threefold Self-Reflection during my studies at the Imperial Academy unless I have