Chapter 245 Book 5 Prison Cell
In the quiet corners of her mind space, Li An stood alone beneath a sky of swirling stars. The broken blade artifact floated silently before her, humming with an ominous pulse. It had pierced her during the battle with Elder Gi Dong, embedding itself into her body and leeching her spirit energy like a greedy leech. She and Seedee had withdrawn into this void to tame it—or be devoured by it.
It took a week.
A week of silence, of pain, of conversations with shadows, and of tests she could only barely understand. The blade's soul and glyphs, shattered and fragmented, screamed with each strand of spirit energy she used to bend it into submission. But finally, she did it. She did not destroy the weapon—no, she bound it. And in return, the blade no longer throbbed with hunger but whispered with obedience.
"Done," she murmured, exhausted but victorious.
