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Chapter 23 - ## **Chapter 13 – Quiet Resolve

As his body healed, Tian resumed training with renewed fire.

His brush with death had gifted him strange clarity. Each cycle of soul power now felt sharper, calmer. His Frost Crystal flickered distinctly clearer, fragment reforged by suffering.

He began refining exercises: rather than flooding veins, he traced frost in patient spirals, layering one breath on another. His veins toughened ever so slightly — not through force, but sturdiness, endurance.

Others advanced faster, but for Tian, stability was everything.

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### Acts of Utility

Soon after, danger struck again — not from serpent now, but from weather. Torrential sleet storm collapsed part of grain storage. Panic erupted: food would rot under wet husks.

While others shouted, Tian moved quietly. He spread his Frost Veil across heaps of drenched grain, chilling them solid to preserve through melting snow.

This simple act saved half the village's harvest.

For the first time, elders looked at him not as frail curiosity, but as budding pillar.

"His frost is not destructive," one hunter admitted. "But it preserves. That is greater wealth than sharpest blade."

Tian heard, eyes burning faintly with determination. *Yes… my frost is meant to preserve. And I will preserve my clan through ages.*

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🔥 End of Chapter 13

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