The light swallowed him whole.
For a fraction of a heartbeat, there was no sound...only pressure, only distortion...then the Fractured Domain reassembled around him in layers of broken geometry and suspended ruin.
Jin Yue landed lightly on a cracked stone path that hovered over open void.
Wind swept across the floating street, carrying dust and fragments of loosened gravel into the abyss below. In the distance, bridges rotated slowly between fragmented towers, their chains groaning against tension that never released.
He did not move immediately.
Instead, he listened.
The Neutral District.
No elemental amplification.
No suppression.
Only balance.
His gaze lowered briefly to the three seals circling his wrist, glowing faintly against his skin.
Three to begin.
Three more to claim.
And then...
His thoughts shifted inward.
Multi-pulse resonance.
Fire, wind, earth, lightning, water.
