Somewhere in the trees three hundred meters away, Liu Mei stared at her ice crystal notebook. At the notes she'd just taken. At the detailed description of Shadow Step Level Four that should have been impossible for a Foundation Realm cultivator to execute without immediately dying or going insane or both.
Her hand trembled slightly as she wrote. Not from fear. From excitement. The kind of academic thrill that came from witnessing something that rewrote everything you thought you knew. The kind of excitement that made two hundred years of cultivation feel worth it.
Emergency Entry: Combat Analysis
Subject created four independent shadow constructs. Shadow Step Level Four. Advanced technique that requires Soul Transformation realm minimum according to Azure Cloud Sect records.
Subject is Foundation Realm.
This is impossible.
