CHAPTER 189 — JADE CALAMITY
The sky had just learned restraint.
It did not learn fast enough.
Two.
The number still hovered above the world—dimmed, thinned, recalibrated—but not erased.
The planetary ring remained a single, lighter band now. Constraint and origin interwoven, stabilized after redefinition.
For exactly seven minutes—
The world believed the worst had passed.
Then the ground split.
Not at Azure Dragon.
Not at the academy ruins.
Far to the east.
Across three neighboring cities aligned along the old tectonic ridge.
The earth did not tremble first.
It exhaled.
A long, low groan that vibrated beneath skyscrapers and subway tunnels, beneath highways and hospital wards, beneath apartment towers filled with people who had just begun breathing normally again.
Ling Yifan felt it from the academy remains.
The Vice Dean turned instantly.
"That resonance isn't Heaven."
Long Hao did not speak.
He felt it.
The fracture across his chest reacted—not in fear.
