The conceptual cliff did not just crack. It shattered into a billion pieces of pure, blinding light.
Inside Training Room Seven, Ash sat cross-legged on the platform, his eyes closed. The qualitative evolution of his life level had begun. The mortal shell of the Martial Apprentice realm was breaking open, rewriting his biology and spiritual structure to accommodate a fundamentally higher state of existence.
But Ash was not breaking through with a single Intent. He was breaking through with nine perfectly comprehended True Cosmic Laws fused into the Boundless Omni Art.
The sheer conceptual weight of this evolution could not be contained by physical walls.
When the barrier shattered, it didn't release a physical explosion of fire or force. It released a shockwave of pure, unadulterated authority. The conceptual detonation blew past the sealed walls of the training room, rippling through the isolation arrays, and washed over the entire Azure Cloud Martial Academy.
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