A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6282

"What about the disciples of the Celestial Palace?" Jared asked.

"The Celestial Palace only ever had twelve disciples. They were all orphans I picked up from different places."

Gwendolyn said evenly, "I already arranged for them to go somewhere safe. For them, the Celestial Palace breaking up is more of a release than anything else."

Jared looked at the woman in front of him, the way she moved fast and never hesitated.

Too many things rose at once, and none of them settled cleanly.

She had been ready for all of this a long time ago.

Not today. Not yesterday. Maybe from the moment she decided to dual cultivate with him, she had already started laying all of this out.

"You weren't worried I'd say no?" Jared asked.

Gwendolyn looked at him, and the corner of her mouth lifted a little.

"Would you?"

Jared gave a helpless smile.

He wouldn't.

Not because of any promise, but because he could no longer treat the woman standing in front of him like some irrelevant passerby.

What happened between them on the Ancient Battlefield, the way they had fought side by side beneath the Voidreach, and that night under the Worldtree... some things crossed a line the moment they happened. After that, there was no going back.

"Let's go."

Jared let out a breath. "Before we do, I need to try that bloodline-sensing art you mentioned. If we leave and then you realize you forgot something, coming all the way back would be a pain."

Gwendolyn gave a soft laugh and handed him the jade slip.

Jared sat down cross-legged, pressed the jade slip to his forehead, and closed his eyes.

The bloodline-sensing art wasn't complicated.

At its core, it was simply a way to sense fluctuations in a bloodline.

Jared already had the Ice God Bloodline fused into his body, and with chaotic force acting as a bridge, cultivating it took half the effort for twice the result.

In less than half an hour, Jared had the secret art in hand.

He stirred the Ice God Bloodline inside him and sent his senses spreading in every direction.

Nothing answered within 1,000 miles.

2,000 miles.

3,000 miles.

When the range pushed out to 5,000 miles, Jared's brows pulled together all of a sudden.

He caught it.

To the southeast, about 4,700 miles away, there was a faint signal.

It was incredibly weak, so weak it was almost drowned out by the surrounding spiritual energy.

But it was there. Without a doubt, it was the faint ripple of dormant recessive genes from the Ice God Bloodline.

"There's one person."

Jared opened his eyes and said to Gwendolyn, "Southeast. 4,700 miles out."

A flicker passed through Gwendolyn's eyes, and then she pressed it down just as fast.

"Only one person?"

Jared nodded. "Only one person. But my sensing range only reaches 5,000 miles right now. I can't detect anything farther than that. Maybe once my strength rises again, the range will grow with it."

Gwendolyn went quiet for a moment, then let out a soft sigh.

"Even one is enough. At least it proves the flame seed of the Frost Deity Branch hasn't gone out completely."

She lifted her head and looked once at the Worldtree, then turned and walked out of the Celestial Palace.

"Let's go."

Jared rose and followed behind her.

The two of them passed through the pillar maze, crossed the Voidwind reaches, and kept heading south.

Jared looked back once at that hidden land buried under ice and snow, and the distance of it all hit him like another lifetime.

When he had come here, he had been alone, drained dry, barely clinging to life.

When he left, there were two of them. His strength had climbed by a huge margin, and at his side was one more woman, one who meant to rebuild an entire race with him.

Fate really was the kind of thing no one saw coming.

They kept traveling south and covered about two days on the road.

Jared's injuries had healed completely, and Gwendolyn had recovered most of what she had spent as well.

As they traveled, they talked through cultivation. More exactly, Gwendolyn was teaching Jared how to use the Ice God Bloodline inside him with more control.

"Your chaotic force is too overbearing. Every time you use the Ice God Bloodline, you unconsciously mix your other powers into it."

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