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Chapter 105 - Chapter 20 – Clash at the League of Descent

The sirens wailed through the floating halls of the League.

> "All students, remain in your quarters!"

"Unauthorized core ignition detected in Dorm Sector Seven!"

Kaien stepped into the corridor, breathing hard. His uniform's sleeve was torn, and faint wisps of golden flame still danced along his forearm. He could feel the Heaven Breaker Core pulsing within his spine — alive, hungry, whispering.

> [Contain it… or command it.]

The AI-voice, faint and ancient, rippled through his mind. He wasn't sure if it was the system or a ghost from Wang Chung's code.

Students peered from their doors, murmuring.

> "He's the one from Sector Seven."

"They said he triggered a pre-Dao-level ignition."

"That's impossible—no one can cultivate without a registered node!"

Kaien ignored them and kept walking. Each step left a faint burn mark on the metallic floor.

At the end of the corridor, ten Enforcement Cultivators appeared, their armor a fusion of spirit steel and nanotech, hovering slightly above the ground. Their visors glowed red with scanning runes.

> "Kaien Lian," one commanded. "By decree of the Council, you are under detention for unauthorized spiritual ignition. Surrender peacefully."

Kaien raised his hands slowly.

Then the pendant under his shirt pulsed — a low, defiant heartbeat.

> "...I can't."

The air warped. The Heaven Breaker flame surged from his core, spreading through his circuits in blazing lines.

> "Engage restraint arrays!" the lead enforcer shouted.

Silver glyphs burst from their gauntlets — digital talismans forming a dome around Kaien.

But the moment they closed, his flame ignited, turning gold-blue. The dome melted like wax.

> Fwoosh!

The corridor exploded with light.

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Through the smoke, Kaien emerged, eyes glowing, hand outstretched. His right arm had transformed — wrapped in ethereal flame, like molten armor forged from data.

He didn't want to fight, but the flame didn't care.

> "Stop resisting!" the enforcer cried, firing a beam of condensed qi-light.

Kaien raised his arm instinctively — the beam split in half before it even touched him, devoured by the flame.

The enforcers hesitated. "That's… impossible. Even a Sovereign Cadet couldn't—"

Their words cut off as Kaien dashed forward, movements fluid, instinctual — guided by memories not his own. Every strike he made left afterimages of Wang Chung's old battle forms.

> Heaven Breaker Form One – Flame Disruption Fist!

His punch shattered the lead enforcer's shield, launching the man into the wall.

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From the upper balcony, Professor Lumei and Archon Veylan, the Council's head, watched in disbelief.

> "That aura…" Lumei whispered. "It's the same as the relic we sealed centuries ago."

Veylan's mechanical eye glowed faintly. "He carries the Heaven Breaker spark. If that's true—"

> "—then the legends were real," Lumei finished. "Wang Chung's legacy has awakened again."

The Archon's tone hardened. "Prepare the Soul Anchor. If we can't contain him, we'll erase him."

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Below, Kaien was barely holding it together. His breath came in gasps as the Heaven Breaker Core tried to consume his body with excess energy.

> You're burning too fast, a voice echoed faintly — Wang Chung's fragment again.

Control the breath, not the fire.

Kaien gritted his teeth, channeling the flame inward. The golden energy coiled around his heart like a restrained beast, steadying.

He exhaled slowly, the corridor glowing with radiant calm.

Then — the temperature plummeted.

A ripple of darkness spread through the air as a new figure appeared, descending through the shattered ceiling.

A tall man in black cyber-armor, his right arm replaced with an obsidian mecha limb etched in Dao runes. His eyes were pure silver, void of emotion.

> "So," he said coldly, "the Flame has chosen another host."

Kaien's pulse quickened. "Who are you?"

> "Designation: Kai'en," the man replied. "Executor of the Temple of Origin."

The name echoed — familiar and ominous.

Wang Chung's last memory flickered in Kaien's mind.

> Beware the mirror born of your flame…

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Kai'en raised his arm. The air shimmered with black qi and code.

> "Surrender the Heaven Breaker Core, or your body will be purged."

Kaien clenched his fists. The flame roared behind him.

> "I don't even understand what this power is yet—"

"Then die with ignorance," Kai'en said.

A burst of dark light ripped through the corridor.

Kaien barely blocked it, the impact sending shockwaves through the entire dorm sector. Walls cracked, students screamed, alarms howled.

The clash of flame and void split the very atmosphere.

> BOOM!

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Kaien skidded back, his arm smoking. "This guy's on another level…"

Kai'en landed gracefully, his void armor pulsing with demonic circuitry. "You carry the sin of a fallen god. I will cleanse it."

The pendant on Kaien's chest flared suddenly, projecting a shield of gold around him.

> [Emergency defense mode: Heaven Breaker Protocol active.]

[Combat Module—Flame Sovereign Style, unlocked.]

Kaien's eyes burned like suns.

> "Then come and try."

The two Sovereign flames — one golden, one black — collided again, shaking the very sky of the League.

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Far above, in the Temple's lunar archive, a voice watched through distant screens.

> "The Sovereign Line has reawakened… and his opposite, the Reversal Flame, still breathes."

"The Neo Era has begun."

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