Morwen clenched her teeth, her lips trembling as pain tore through her body.

"Luca… what are you doing?!" Kara's voice was sharp, restrained fury barely contained.

"I didn't do anything," Luca replied lazily.

"Your disciple is simply too weak. I'm using demonic fire to temper her body."

He tilted his head, eyes glinting with amusement.

"What? Feeling distressed?"

"With your strength, a little circulation of demonic energy would solve this easily."

Luca clapped his hands lightly, the sound echoing in the cave like mockery.

"…!"

Kara's expression darkened. Her fists trembled as she glared at him.

"Luca, don't go too far. If you have an issue with me, settle it with me. What's the point of bullying a junior?"

"Bullying?" Luca chuckled.

"Miss Kara, the way you look right now—furious yet powerless—isn't very convincing."

"If you don't save your disciple, you hardly look like a sect master at all. Tsk, tsk…"

He shook his head in feigned disappointment.

In the next instant, Luca appeared before Morwen. He squatted down, watching her strained breathing, the faint tremor running through her body.

"Morwen," he said softly, almost kindly.

"Why aren't you not resisting?"

"Are you really planning to endure this with your body alone?"

"This demonic fire isn't even one-tenth of my power. If you circulated your energy, you could block it."

"So why insist on suffering?"

He leaned closer, his voice lowering.

"How about relaxing? Letting go? Perhaps I'll see a more interesting side of you."

Morwen's face was pale, her lips pressed tight.

She didn't know why her master had forbidden her from circulating demonic energy.

But she trusted Kara.

No matter how painful it became, she would not disobey.

Even if it burned her to death.

She didn't make a sound.

"…Stubborn."

Luca straightened, clicking his tongue. He paced around the two women, eyes filled with a predator's patience.

"These two… even now, still resisting."

"Especially you," he glanced at Morwen.

"Not even a scream."

Yet despite his words, Morwen's condition was worsening.

Her complexion had lost all color, veins faintly visible beneath her skin. The demonic fire scorched her flesh; what had once been smooth and pale turned flushed, then darkened, faint signs of decay appearing at the edges.

Kara's fists clenched so tightly that blood seeped from her palms.

If this continued, Morwen would not last.

Just as Kara was about to speak—about to yield—

The jade pendant at her waist trembled.

Her heart skipped.

"Senior sister, are you alright?"

Ethan's voice echoed in her mind.

"I'm fine," Kara replied instantly, barely containing her relief.

"When will you arrive?"

"Immediately."

The single word steadied her heart like a mountain.

Outside the cave, the world had transformed.

The fog thickened, turning crimson under the light of a blood-red moon. Scarlet mist rolled down the mountainsides like a living tide.

Within it pulsed a terrifying, frigid killing intent.

Then—

Golden lightning tore through the fog.

A deafening crack split the night as a streak of light descended from the sky, halting above the cave.

Ethan stood suspended in midair, blue light igniting within his pupils as the Heaven-Piercing Mind Eyes opened.

Everything came into focus.

The demons from Blackspire Mountain.

The sealed caves.

Luca.

Kara.

Morwen.

All of them—clearly mapped within his perception.

So they were all here.

Good.

It saved him the trouble of hunting them down one by one.

The blood-colored mist surged closer, rolling like a tide of death.

Around Ethan's body, faint blue flames bloomed—Pure Azure Flame, the spiritual flame born from the fusion of multiple fires.

Spiritual flame was the bane of cold, yin, and killing intent.

Yet this was no ordinary killing intent. It was left behind by an Emperor Sage himself.

Ordinary flames would be devoured in seconds.

But Ethan was different.

He did not retreat.

As the murderous mist touched the blue flames, it transformed—refined into wisps of transparent red energy that flowed into Ethan's body.

Pure killing intent.

No resentment.

No madness.

Perfect nourishment for the path of killing.

"So this is it," Ethan murmured.

"Just absorbing this… my killing intent world has reached true perfection. Completely refined."

A smile curved his lips.

"Now I can finally unleash the real power of the One-Word Severing Technique."

Step by step, he advanced through the fog, absorbing and refining the tide itself.

To others, the murderous tide was a calamity.

To him, it was fuel.

When he reached the cave, the last traces of killing mist vanished into his body.

Ethan exhaled slowly and opened his eyes.

Inside the cave, Luca had grown impatient.

He reached out, fingers catching Kara's clothes, tugging them aside, exposing her shoulder.

At that moment—

Phew!

A violent wind roared through the cave.

Golden light ripped through the barrier as if it were paper.

Luca's expression changed instantly.

Years of battle honed his instincts; his body moved before thought. He twisted away, retreating several steps.

Bang!

Golden lightning struck the ground where he had stood, drilling straight through stone and deep into the earth.

Silence fell.

Luca stared at the smoking, thumb-sized hole, his pupils shrinking.

He slowly lifted his gaze.

"Who dares break into my cave?"

A calm voice answered.

"Please check the express delivery sent to you by Amazon."

Ethan hovered in the air, bamboo hat casting a shadow over his face. One hand rested behind his back.

The other was open.

In his palm, a dark fireball spun slowly—compressed to the extreme, dense and radiant like a miniature star.

Four colors of spiritual fire formed a brilliant ring around it, rotating in perfect harmony.

It looked as though a star had been captured and held in his hand.

The Star of Great Stillness.

"…Amazon?" Luca growled. "What Amazon?!"

"And what is that thing in your hand?"

His throat tightened.

The moment he sensed it, his scalp went numb.

That fireball radiated annihilation.

If it touched him—even death would be a mercy.

But this was the Training Trial Secret Realm, where everyone's cultivation was suppressed below the Supreme Realm.

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