Ready for WebNovel English Translation (without changing the story or meaning):
Shiro coughed up blood, standing on the very edge of death. Even so, a smile formed on his lips as he whispered,
"A question?"
Suleiman raised his eyes toward him and spoke in a sharp voice.
"I entered a chamber inside this cave. Its walls were covered with murals depicting a man fighting numerous groups. But when the murals reached the final group, I found that entire section completely destroyed."
He fell silent for a moment before continuing.
"Did he win? And who was he?"
The question sounded innocent on the surface, but the Great Elder standing behind them trembled in fear, convinced that Shiro would never answer. The fear inside him slowly began to fade...
Until the answer came.
Shiro spoke with great difficulty.
"I don't know. They were already destroyed when we found them. As for the man..."
He paused to catch his breath before continuing.
"The man was one of the Three Emperors who ruled the world. He was the Absolute Star Emperor."
Silence instantly descended upon the area after that name was spoken.
The Absolute Star Emperor was the first ruler of the world and the one who established the laws that ended the chaos which had consumed the land before his reign. The greatest legacy he left behind was the Forbidden Law, a law that no one dared to violate despite countless attempts. Every single challenger met a horrific death.
The law itself was both simple and merciless:
It is forbidden to kill a King.
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Elsewhere...
Above the cave, inside the prison cells, Lorina staggered through the second floor. Blood flowed from her wounds, and she could barely keep herself standing.
"Damn it... If I drink the poison now, I'll definitely die."
She let out a deep sigh, opened the bottle of poison, and drank every last drop.
The outcome was obvious to her. If she refused to drink it, she would die at the hands of Baran and Suleiman. Drinking the poison was her only chance, no matter how small it was.
The air was still cold because of the storm Narvik had created moments earlier.
However...
The atmosphere suddenly became suffocating.
The temperature began rising at an unnatural speed.
"Oh... Baran."
Before he could respond, Baran forced himself to his feet despite his exhausted state and leaped directly toward the prison.
Then...
Without the slightest warning...
Strange blue flames erupted throughout the prison cells.
They were not ordinary flames. An unknown energy wrapped itself around the prisoners' bodies as thick blue smoke poured out from them, filling the narrow corridors within seconds.
The women screamed in unbearable agony.
Fire was still fire, regardless of its origin, and none of them were Cultivators capable of resisting it.
They desperately tried to extinguish the flames covering their bodies, but it was useless.
In the end...
They were only human.
The prison transformed into a maze swallowed by dense blue mist that erased all visibility.
Baran attempted to move forward, but suddenly stopped after feeling an overwhelming heat and an invisible pressure crushing his chest.
The stone walls shook violently as collapsing rocks mixed with the deafening roar of the blue flames.
Baran stood frozen in shock.
It was not the women surrounded by the smoke that captured his attention...
It was the smoke itself.
Suddenly...
The blue smoke moved.
It rushed straight toward Lorina.
She struggled to breathe while the poison flowed through her veins.
The smoke entered her body, layer after layer, until every trace of it had completely merged with her.
Lorina screamed in agony.
Then...
Her scream abruptly stopped.
A colossal explosion erupted, completely erasing both the prison and the cave from existence.
Only the hidden chambers remained untouched, protected by a mysterious force.
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Narvik emerged from the ruins in complete shock.
Moments later, Suleiman walked out carrying the severed head of the Great Elder, who had died for an unknown reason.
Smoke rose heavily around them.
"What happened?" Suleiman asked as he approached.
"I don't know... but I think Lorina drank the poison."
Before Narvik could finish speaking...
His sword suddenly flew out from the rubble and stopped in front of him.
At that exact moment...
Narvik remembered that Baran had been inside the prison when the explosion occurred.
"Impossible..."
An expression of anxiety spread across his face.
The very next second, a voice thundered from above.
"What the hell happened?"
Suleiman and Narvik froze as they looked toward the source of the voice.
Lorina...
She was floating in the air.
"Damn it... It worked."
Lorina hovered above them, observing the scene while thinking to herself,
"Nothing has changed... except that I can fly now."
She herself was equally shocked.
Despite drinking the poison, not only had she survived...
She had gained the ability to fly.
But almost immediately, agonizing pain overwhelmed her.
At that very moment...
She broke through to the Middle Stage of the Connected Realm.
Her screams soon transformed into hysterical laughter filled with overwhelming joy.
Then the pain returned.
She broke through to the Upper Stage.
Only moments later...
She reached the Legendary Stage of the Connected Realm.
Normally, every realm was divided into three stages:
Lower...
Middle...
And Upper.
Anyone who reached the Upper Stage could then advance into a higher realm.
However...
There existed a fourth stage known as the Legendary Stage.
An incredibly rare stage that required exceptionally rare resources to attain.
Those who entered a higher realm from the Legendary Stage were vastly stronger than those who advanced from the ordinary Upper Stage.
Suddenly...
Lorina's body began trembling.
An enormous amount of energy erupted from her body, spreading throughout the surroundings and releasing an overwhelming pressure upon Narvik and Suleiman.
Then...
In a flash beyond belief...
That energy transformed into an Aura.
"An Aura... Only those in the Origin Realm possess it."
Narvik muttered those words as he stared directly into the face of death.
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Author's Note:
There will be no new chapters until next Tuesday.
In the meantime, new chapters of my second novel, Rage of the Last Death, will be released on the same platform.