Huang Yun rolled his neck, and his joints cracked sharply.
Above him lay the collapsed dome of the ruins. Rubble had piled high, and faint light seeped through the gaps.
He looked up at the cracks, then leaped. His body passed through the rubble as though weightless, rising through layer after layer of collapsed rock and earth.
With his Indestructible Vajra Body fully mastered, ordinary physical obstacles could no longer stop him. Hard stone gave way before him like soft soil.
A few breaths later, he burst through the ground at the center of the flat expanse of rubble.
The night wind met him, carrying the chill of the wilderness and the scent of grass and trees.
The moment he stood on the surface, he looked up at a sky full of stars.
It was the first time he had seen the sky in a year.
The air was cool, the wind alive, and the starlight on his face felt real and clear.
He drew a deep breath, letting the night wind fill his lungs and wash away the last of the stifling gloom of the Inheritance Space.
He stood there for a while, then looked down at himself.
The Thunder Source had destroyed his clothes completely while tempering his body. He took a spare set of gray clothes from his Storage Ring, put them on, and stretched his arms and legs.
He was much taller than before. At fifteen, his body had nearly reached adult proportions, with broad shoulders and long limbs. Standing in the darkness, he looked like a sword freshly drawn from its sheath.
He counted off the time on his fingers.
A full year had passed since he entered the ruins.
He was fifteen now.
By his reckoning,
the Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament had long