To say Adam was stunned would be a severe understatement.
His spirit sea was always under the divine protection of the Eternal Soul Lotus. No being could enter it without his permission. Likewise, nothing within it could leave without his consent.
For all these years, the Lotus had guarded his spirit sea as though it was protecting its own charge. Its divine presence permeated every corner, forming an absolute barrier that even beings more powerful than him would have struggled to breach.
Yet now, a seemingly unassuming key had bypassed that protection entirely and entered his spirit sea without his permission.
Not only that. Adam had thoroughly scanned the room with his senses several times, taking note of each and every item inside. Yet, only when he accepted that life could move forward without rewarding him for overcoming an ordeal did the key seemingly appear out of nowhere.
Adam was highly suspicious.
