Chapter 634: Ten Months Beyond the Door
Leon emerged into afternoon light and the smell of turned earth.
The contrast disoriented him for a moment. Jade Moon Palace was cold stone, sea wind, and the constant presence of hundreds of cultivators. His dimensional world was warm and familiar. A work bell rang somewhere down the slope, and cultivated fields stretched green beneath a clear sky.
Seraphine crossed the room before he had fully steadied himself.
She caught his collar and began opening his robe.
"It is healed," Leon said.
"That is the second time you have greeted me with that sentence."
Her hands stopped over the faint discoloration along his left side. The original wound had closed, but less than a week had not been enough to erase every trace of the damaged junctions beneath it.
"What happened?" she asked.
"A cultivation route tore during a duel."
