The King Of Warriors novel (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6417

"Jared did not answer with an objection.

He slowly closed his eyes and steadied his focus. His awareness sank into his spirit well, and vast chaotic force spread outward without a sound, turning into an invisible net of perception that covered the entire ice peak, the outer encampment, and every warding formation around them."

"Chaotic force was born to break illusions, concealments, and wards.

In only a short while, every patrol route, every troop checkpoint, every weak point in the wards, and every blind spot in the formations appeared clearly in Jared's mind. Nothing stayed hidden."

"A moment later, Jared opened his eyes.

The corner of his mouth lifted with quiet certainty, and he said evenly, ""No need to charge in from the front."""

"The ancestral seat's core ward recognizes only true Frost-Deity blood. No matter how many celestial cultivators they station outside, they cannot step even half a pace inside. They can only stand guard on the perimeter and watch."

"All we need to do is avoid the patrols, find the blind spots, slip around the outer line of defense, and step inside the warding veil. Once we do, the Celestial Army will have no move left. They can only watch us enter the ancestral seat with their own eyes, powerless to stop us."

"The five companions lowered themselves at once, pressing close to the frozen surface.

They drew in every trace of their presence and slipped soundlessly toward the foot of the ancestral ice peak."

"Jared kept the chaos-wrought concealment running the entire way.

It wrapped over all five of them, sealing away their bodies, their breaths, and every ripple of spiritual power until not even the faintest mark remained."

"Squads of celestial patrolmen passed only a few steps from them, holy radiance arcane implements in hand.

Their eyes swept the area again and again, yet caught nothing at all. From beginning to end, none of them knew powerful enemies had already come within reach."

"After slipping past every patrol point without a break in their cover, the five companions set their feet down lightly.

In the next instant, they crossed into the invisible, colorless barrier at the foot of the ancestral ice peak—the ancestral seat's outer warding veil."

"The warding veil cut the inside off from the outside.

Sound vanished behind it. Presence could not pass through it. The moment they stepped in, the savage wind around them stopped dead, and the weight pressing over the air scattered all at once.

The world's spiritual essence became pure and gentle, the complete opposite of the frozen bitterness outside."

"Behind them, the celestial cultivators in the encampment could only watch as five figures disappeared into thin air before the veil.

There was nothing they could do. They could not cross the boundary to pursue, so they struck the warning bells at once, tightened every layer of defense, and waited for orders."

"Beyond the outer warding veil, a massive ice gate rose before them.

It stood ten yards high, sudden and imposing in their path."

"The whole gate shone a pure ice-blue, sealed in frost that had not melted for ten thousand years.

Three ancient characters were carved into its surface, each stroke strong, old, and edged with biting frost energy—the Trial of the Frozen Heart."

"Inside the Trial of the Frozen Heart lay a boundless void-dark trial-realm.

There was no sky, no earth, no light, no warmth. No sound moved there. Nothing answered.

The place existed to test a cultivator’s true heart and heart of the Way, to force them to see through the inner fiend and the obsessions clinging to it."

"This trial only examines the inner fiend of the heart. There is no need to fight side by side. I can enter alone. Stay here and wait for me. Guard the outside for me, and be ready in case the celestials launch a surprise attack."

"Gwendolyn turned to the four of them and gave the warning with a grave set to her face.

Then she went on alone, her steps calm and even, crossing by herself into the Frozen Heart's darkened trial-realm."

"Jared, Alaric, and the others stopped outside the trial gate.

They focused their senses, took up guard in every direction, and waited in silence."

"Gwendolyn stood alone inside the endless dark.

All around her, the silence lay absolute, without even the smallest sound."

"Only a thin, fragile path of light stretched beneath her feet, running straight toward the exit at the far end of the trial.

Beyond that narrow line, thick darkness filled everything and closed around her body."

"She drew in a deep breath.

The stir beneath her heart was forced back down, and she lifted her foot, stepping forward with steady control."

"She had gone no more than a hundred steps when the thick darkness around her suddenly churned and changed.

Countless illusions, lifelike to the smallest detail, appeared out of nowhere before her eyes, striking straight at the things buried deepest in her heart—the things she had never escaped, and the knots she had never fully cut loose."

"The images dragged time back across a thousand years and brought the old catastrophe back in all its blood-soaked ruin.

When she had still been young and unaware, the Frost Deity Branch's peaceful homeland had been slaughtered without mercy by the Celestial Army. The order had shattered. Clansmen had died where they stood. Elders had fallen one after another.

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