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Twinkling motes of silver filled an erew fro them All of a sudden they cracked like a fractures ed a sapphire blue battleship

Any energy signature was constrained In fact all was quiet, like nothing out of the ordinary had happened at all Within Zeus-1 the Wine Master sat down on the floor, exhausted Transferring the distance by himself was a stretch of his abilities, not to mention the size of the ship The Starfields were also rife with disrupting energies that made it all the more difficult

Lan Jue’s face still showed his shock Captus had disappeared back into its place between dimensions, but Occisus remained suspended in air It flickered in and out of existence, surrounded by white light Thankfully, with Captus’ help, its unbridled murderous poas contained Were that not the case he feared for the safety of those onboard the ship

No trace was seen of the Pharmacist, who had joined with her blade However Lan Jue could feel waves of power co froh He couldn’t knohether she would rise to be a Reflection of Heaven and Earth like his brother, but it wasn’t out of the question After all, she had the benefit of a Banishing Blade She would inevitable be integral in the fight against the aliens

Lan Jue couldn’t say he wasn’t a little envious of the Pharh It see while he re to second degree and co Varochana as his dharle day he had becoons

Hua Li had also received the rights of his ancestors and ascended to Paragon status He was now truly His Majesty Poseidon Chu Cheng had yet to take that step, but was separated by only the thinnest in Now, the Pharmacist had joined the ranks of Eastern powerhouses

But himself?

Lan Jue’s individual Discipline had risen to ninth level eighth rank If he wanted he could reach peak rank in very little tion His body was imbued with immortal qi frohty All-Heaven lightning Although he could not be called a Paragon, the truth was he wasn’t a typical Adept, either

The restriction that had been imposed upon him – by Bize, by the arrow of compassion, by his connection to Qianlin – they held hion ith Qianlin by his side Her Discipline was only slightly less than his own, yet Lan Jue was still uneasy IF she didn’t coh, it may result in probleenia as she crossed the barrier, how could she advance? It wasn’t even certain the process wouldn’t corowth depended on their colowered helplessly, but he knew he couldn’t rush He had to find a way to rouse Qianlin froht back to Qianlin’s sn that maybe the day she came back to him wasn’t far off

Each time they cultivated Lan Jue channeled the immortal qi he absorbed from the thunder essence into her body He hoped it would nourish her It was the reason she appeared more and more ethereal, like a fairy from the old tales Whatever awful toxin the Astral Phantom had used, it could not be more powerful than the essence of the i her mind back

“What did you find out?” The Clock

He snapped back to the present and faced her with a bitter sht We captured an alien as fast as we could, but the Violet Princess still tracked us down Faced with her Doh Then our weapons soh to scare the Princess away and give us an opportunity to run I think she’s still in the process of her breakthrough now”

“The Pharh, that’s incredible! Meditate, learn from the power she releases I’ll protect the ship” Zeus-1 was distant by this point Unless the three alien planets were headed right for the to worry about

In fact the Clockuo and the Driver were already io before it was their tih, but the Driver tread nearer every day His moment would be when the evolution of his Discipline The prih it still couldn’t compare to Lan Jue’s At any rate, his ascension was all but assured

Lan Jue sat and crossed his legs, slipping into introspective silence as he felt the flows of the Pharenia It was easy for him to understand its secrets because they were issued from Occisus – a pair to Captus which he bore When the bearers of the Banishing Blades ascended these weapons would channel their powers,they all had in common

Of course, Lan Jue had his own unique potential His All-Heaven lightning and the thunder essence continued to aave hiend