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Chapter 125 - System Upgrade

The forest beyond the mountains was a graveyard of life. Petrified trees stood frozen, their leaves turned to ash, their bark cracked and drained of essence.

The soil crunched under Kael's boots, blackened and dry, devoid of qi. No beasts stirred, no insects hummed—only faint whispers clawed at his mind, their voices like invisible fingers scraping at his spirit.

The wind curled around him, wary and serpentine, as the land itself twisted, space rippling, time slowing, a decay that wasn't an illusion but a wound in the world's fabric.

Kael pushed forward, his Crescent Requiem Dao guiding his steps through the corrupted terrain, the Silver Lotus Flame flaring defensively in his dantian. The whispers grew louder, their tone urgent, warning of something vast and wrong.

Then he saw it—a wide, cratered basin where the earth lay shattered, and at its center stood a creature born of nightmares.

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