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Chapter 402: Hades’ Hospitality

Although Qianlin suspected so on, she didn’t immediately ask about it Her face reddened as she bit her lower lip

Part of Lan Jue’s insistence was for her benefit He could have broken through the barrier to rank two alone, but wanted Qianlin to experience it as well Differences in how quickly two people clithen their energy

Adepts beneath the rank of ninth level ninth rank could envelope two people Although Lan Jue couldn’t directly ithen her body A strong te Discipline

The speed and strength of their coht to the peak of ninth level He went rigid as the energy struck hi fro This happened a total of three tih coh he and Qianlin were at the peak of ninth rank level when joined, he could still feel that their total power had increased somewhat since the last time Their Disciplines were more vivacious

It was important to remember that the peak of ninth level wasn’t a point, so much as it was a plateau When an Adept’s power reached a certain point, there they would reon It was si God pilots Any pilot with a hand speed over forty was considered God-ranked, but they were practically children cohties

Naturally, there were also differences ahts of power The vast majority of peak-level Adepts remained there for their entire lives, never able to coth of a solid foundation and unceasing cultivation

While the situation he was in wasn’t ideal, Lan Jue didn’t begrudge Bize her actions By now he understood the reasons, and understood that in the end it had been the clairvoyant’s idea He suspected that everything he’d experienced since encountering Bize had been carefully arranged by the for their ‘altruistic blood’, and the change in powers it produced

Having to go over ranks you’ve passed before certainly seemed on the surface to be a es came later, when the Adept reached his peak With the benefit of a strong foundation, breaking through to Paragon would be much easier

It only went to sho precise and pervasive the clairvoyant had been The deeper he went down the rabbit hole, the entle touch

When it came to the Clairvoyant, Lan Jue was thankful for the old uidance Btu he was also terrified It felt like every step he took the Clairvoyant atching Although he didn’t knoerful the old ht, but his powers of prediction and control aloneeven compared to someone like the Terminator

He remembered that his old teacher had been loathe to speak of other Paragons, but the Clairvoyant was mentioned on more than one occasion He even recalled notes of ad was trending toward i it would take at his current pace to get back to where he was before the Bize incident He won’t be back where he started, however – he’ll be in a rowth, at the very least In three years, he’d probably reach the peak of ninth level This was a speed coh not quite as fast

The thought h He wanted to be better than his brother, but of course it wouldn’t be an overnight thing He couldn’t even re

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The Dark Citadel’s coterie had been set up in the Nice Hotel, a famous Western chain that spanned the Alliance It wasn’t as expansive as the Intercontinental where he stayed, but it had an ‘old-world luxury’ char Her hope had been to gain so this tourna yet, but she was a third rank ninth level Adept at twenty-four years old The ju the denizens of the Dark Citadel, she showed the most promise Most ienetica potions or bionic installations to get where she was

It hadn’t only been Dracula watching her perfor, too He was, after all, on the look-out for a successor He’d praised her on ifted her several iteined! Only the second round, and she runs in to that hateful playboy Her loss had been as bitter as it had been unexpected That was not to say she didn’t know a fair a and the contentious relationship his family had with Satan’s

The Lord of the Underworld and the Prince of Devils had always been at odds, regardless of who held the title It was an interesting balance of pohere no one side could coon-level Talents, perennial leaders of the world of darkness So, their struggle continued through the generations