Date: TC1853.07.26 — Evening into Night
Location: Seven Peaks — Thunder Peak
The final drop formed without warning.
Raven had been reviewing supply reports in her study when the change hit—a sudden pressure in her dantian, a shift in the delicate balance she'd been monitoring for days. Her spiritual senses turned inward automatically, probing the landscape of her cultivation base.
Her essence sea stretched before her mind's eye, vast and golden, shot through with crimson and azure threads. Liquid spiritual energy lapped against the walls of her expanded dantian, dense and powerful. But where yesterday there'd been a thin layer of gaseous essence floating above the surface—the final six percent resisting conversion—now there was only liquid.
All of it. One hundred percent.
It's time.
The realization carried no fear. Only readiness, and something that might have been anticipation.
