But the guardian had confirmed something important: this wasn't just a cultivation technique or bloodline inheritance. This was something far more personal, more deliberate. Someone had sealed their heart—their very essence—inside this body for a specific purpose.
'And Aiden Jus took possession of this body completely unaware of what was hiding inside it.'
The thought was sobering. If the Slaughter Dao hadn't triggered the seal naturally, if he hadn't entered this Tower and reached the fortieth floor, if he hadn't spent a week comprehending Slaughter Intent...
The heart might have remained dormant forever, never awakening, and Aiden would never have known there was something sealed inside him waiting.
"Regardless of what I don't know," Yan Shou said, pulling Long Chen's attention back to the present, "what I do know is that you passed the test. Not just passed—you exceeded it beyond any candidate in the Tower's entire history."
He reached into his robes and pulled out two items.
