Tony closed his eyes and immediately tried to call out to his greatest asset within his sea of consciousness. ’System Spirit, wake up this instant! Scan this new body and tell me how to purge this lingering soul poison from my meridians!’
However, his mind remained completely dark and quiet.
There is no response even after several calls.
"Damn it!" Tony cursed himself silently, his knuckles turning white as he gripped the edge of the bedsheet. He had spent almost all his Fate Points on Mount Meru, and now his helpful guide was completely asleep right when he needed it most. He was truly stranded in a higher world with a broken body and a pack of wolves outside his door.
Still, Tony was not a man who panicked. He forced his breathing to slow down and activated his Truth Eye. Even without the system spirit’s help, this supreme vision trait was permanently bound to his soul. As he looked down at his own physical form, his vision shifted to perceive the internal energy pathways of his new body. He could clearly see a disgusting, pitch-black liquid energy wrapping around his fragile meridians like a nest of venomous snakes, slowly eating away at his life force. This was the slow soul poison his relatives had been giving him.
Tony gritted his teeth, channeling every single ounce of his remaining Overlord Warrior willpower from his previous life. He could not use his high-tier martial arts yet because this mortal body was too weak, but he could manually force his internal spiritual energy to act like a physical broom.
For three agonizing hours in the middle of the night, Tony endured an absolute, burning hell. He manually pushed his basic energy through his blocked channels, grinding the black poison particles down to dust and forcing them out through his skin pores as a foul-smelling, dark sweat.
By the time the first ray of morning light hit the window, the black liquid was completely gone. His body felt incredibly light, and his blocked meridians were finally open, ready to absorb the rich primordial energy of the Eternal Sun Realm.
Early the next morning, before anyone else in the treacherous estate could even wake up, Tony quietly slipped out of his bed. He washed the toxic sweat from his skin, dressed in a simple, tight-fitting black hunting outfit, and grabbed a sturdy wooden hunting bow and a quiver of arrows from the corner of the room. He did not wake up the loyal servant lady, knowing that dragging her along would only put her in extreme danger.
Tony walked out of the estate gates completely alone, his lazy but confident posture returning as he left the city walls and headed straight into the dense, wild forest that bordered the region. The trees in the Eternal Sun Realm were massive, their leaves glowing with a faint spiritual energy that made the air feel incredibly thick and potent. Tony navigated the wild terrain for an hour until the distant, thunderous sound of rushing water caught his attention. He pushed through a thick wall of glowing vines and found a magnificent, hidden waterfall cascading down a high stone cliff into a crystal-clear mountain pool.
Tony’s eyes gleamed with a calculating brilliance as he scanned the area. He used his Truth Eye to look past the rushing wall of water and discovered a small, perfectly dry cave hidden directly behind the waterfall. "The absolute perfect training ground," Tony muttered with a sharp grin. He crossed the pool, climbed into the hidden cave, and immediately set up a small, safe basecamp where no standard relative or assassin could ever track him.
Without wasting a single second, Tony began his ruthless survival training. He left the cave and began hunting the low-tier spiritual animals roaming the dense forest. Even though his physical body was currently only at the very baseline of the 3rd Class Disciple stage, Tony possessed the absolute combat experience, tracking skills, and tactical mind of a seasoned Overlord Warrior.
He climbed into the high branches of a massive tree, silences his breathing, and pulled back his wooden bowstring. A wild, two-tailed spiritual rabbit hopped into the clearing below. Thwack! A single arrow pierced the creature’s neck, killing it instantly.
Tony dropped from the tree, sliced open the animal’s chest, and pulled out a tiny, glowing blue core filled with raw natural energy. He sat down cross-legged on the mossy ground, using his open meridians to greedily absorb the animal core’s power. A warm, refreshing energy rushed into his spiritual sea, making his cultivation level hum with rapid progress. To take the upcoming entrance test at the Black Fire Academy, he needed to reach at least the 7th Class Disciple stage within two days. With his unlocked meridians and his ruthless hunting strategy, he knew he could force the breakthrough.
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Meanwhile, back inside the city, a completely different kind of bloody drama was unfolding. Inside the private study of the family estate, the current patriarch—Tony’s biological uncle—stood over a cold corpse on the floor. He had just personally murdered the rogue alchemist who had provided the slow soul poison, completely destroying any physical evidence that could link the assassination plot back to him.
Wiping the blood from his hands with a silk handkerchief, the uncle hurried out of the back door to attend a highly secret meeting inside a luxurious, heavily guarded pavilion belonging to the premier Faith Family. He walked into the grand hall and immediately dropped to his knees, lowering his head in deep fear before the imposing figure of the Faith Family Head.
"You absolute, incompetent fool!" the Faith Family Head roared, slamming his fist onto the marble table, causing the expensive teacups to shatter into fragments. "We offered your branch family a massive, life-changing bounty to quietly handle a single, talentless orphan! Yet, you come to my hall today to report that he suddenly woke up, shouted at your elders, and is currently walking around the city freely?! The marriage alliance with my daughter Julie is a massive stain on our royal reputation! If this news leaks out to the higher academies, our family will become the laughingstock of the entire realm!"
The uncle trembled violently on the floor, his face covered in a cold sweat. "Please lower your anger, Excellency! The boy somehow developed an entirely new, terrifying temper overnight. I did not expect the poison to fail! If... if you allow me, I have a secondary suggestion to fix this mess. We can secretly kidnap and murder Tony’s loyal servant lady tonight, frame him for a horrific crime, and throw him into the imperial black prison permanently! He will never see the light of day again!" [2]
Sitting on a plush velvet chair just a few feet away, a beautiful eighteen-year-old girl dressed in magnificent, flowing red silks slowly set down her teacup. It was Lady Julie Faith, the premier genius of the family and Tony’s proud, arrogant fiancée. She looked down at the kneeling uncle with an expression of pure, cold condescension, completely rejecting the brutal suggestion.
"Do not be so hasty to execute such a sloppy, noisy plan," Julie Faith spoke, her voice silky, arrogant, and entirely calm. "If you murder his servant and throw him into prison right after his grandfather’s death, the public will immediately suspect the Faith Family of foul play. We must maintain our moral high ground in this city.
The slow soul poison you administered has likely already compromised his internal organs. Don’t hurry, maybe the poison will simply take a few days to show its final effect. We will wait quietly for the academy trial to arrive, and if he is somehow still alive by then, we will make another, absolute attempt to finish him off soon."
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