Sacrifice

Extraordinary Perception!

Xia Lun's eyes shifted to Wind Whisperer, the special skill he had gained when his perception reached 20.

[Wind Whisperer: Your perception has surpassed the limits of flesh and blood. The ever-flowing wind has become an extension of your inner senses, and your mind is gradually becoming one with your surroundings.]

[When activated, this skill makes you highly sensitive to any attack that disturbs the air, granting you intuitive foresight akin to a sixth sense. Even when the skill is inactive, listening to the wind slowly restores your mental state. This effect cannot restore your maximum Mental Health.]

[Maximum uses per day: 1/1]

Ordinarily, skills consumed mental energy. This one not only cost him nothing, but could restore his Mental Health!

The active effect is great, but it's a shame I have no use for the passive effect, he thought.

Xia Lun took a deep breath. Rather than test his new skill, he looked up.

The cramped Hidden Passage was pitch-black. Apart from the light spilling through the opening overhead, there was not a glimmer anywhere. Thick darkness hung over every corner like a curtain.

By all rights, he should not have been able to see a thing. Yet the gray-white outlines of objects in the passage now appeared before him.

With his perception at 20, he could see in the dark even without activating Darkvision!

He could not make out colors this way, only gray-white outlines.

That's an unexpected bonus, Xia Lun thought.

Thick blood flowed from the Wild Man's still-twitching corpse and slowly spread toward his boots.

Xia Lun stepped clear of the blood and looked into the depths of the passage.

Unlike the rest of the Deserted Island, this passage had clearly been built by humans. Wooden frames on either side supported the