The specific time and place must never be leaked. This is a matter of life and death.

When a martial artist breaks through the Dan Yuan stage, it is a major threshold; in other words, the path to true strength is fully opened from this point on.

The Dan Yuan stage is what ordinary people consider the realm of a martial arts grandmaster.

And the younger one is when breaking through this stage, the greater their potential for future development; Grace Carter is only nineteen this year, and to break through the Dan Yuan stage at nineteen—looking across the entire Central Plains, this has never happened in thousands of years!

If she succeeds, it will undoubtedly open a brand new chapter in history.

A nineteen-year-old at the Dan Yuan stage! A nineteen-year-old female grandmaster!

This is a miracle enough to shake the world!

So this news will definitely attract attention, and it certainly won’t go unnoticed.

Naturally, there will also be those with ill intentions who don’t want Grace Carter to break through smoothly!

Ordinary assassination attempts are mostly ineffective, especially in a city familiar to Grace Carter, where it’s too easy for her to escape or hide; she might even turn the tables on her attackers.

But during the breakthrough process, especially at the critical moment of overcoming the bottleneck, even a single shout from an ordinary person could be enough to throw her internal energy into chaos and cause her to go berserk!

If someone wanted to snuff out such a genius, that would undoubtedly be the best time!

And the date of Grace Carter’s breakthrough, at least up to now, is the biggest secret in Phoenix City!

As far as Grace Carter knows, only two people are aware of it!

One is Grace Carter herself, and the other is Grace Carter’s master.

Even the use of the Xingyuan Room is now fully booked with no gaps, showing no sign at all that Grace Carter is about to use it.

Grace Carter was filled with suspicion and uncertainty.

How did Brian Carter know?

Could it be just a wild guess?

But if so, the guess was way too accurate?!

……

Seeing Grace Carter’s reaction, Brian Carter’s heart instead turned completely cold!

The content of that line—was it actually true?!

Clinging to a sliver of hope, Brian Carter probed, “In... the Xingwu Gold Crystal Room?”

“!!!”

Grace Carter immediately straightened up, her beautiful eyes wide with shock!

He really knows!

The Xingwu Gold Crystal Room was the result of much deliberation between herself and her master. To avoid interference, they didn’t use the top three rooms—the Jade Crystal Room, the Sky Crystal Room, or the Soul Crystal Room!

Instead, they chose the relatively ordinary Gold Crystal Room!

This was a secret among secrets!

She had never told anyone, and her master regarded her as the continuation of her own life, and would be even more cautious than herself.

But how did Xiaoduo know?

Grace Carter’s face turned a little pale.

She turned away and said hoarsely, “Not necessarily. Nothing is set in stone yet.”

Maybe others would believe this, but Brian Carter, who grew up with her, could tell at a glance that Grace Carter was lying!

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have turned away.

He was right.

Brian Carter only felt his heart sinking deeper and deeper.

Using the physiognomy techniques in his mind, he carefully observed Grace Carter’s face, and saw a faint black line forming between her brows.

The black energy in her glabella was gradually filling up, rising to the canopy above, and extending endlessly below—this is... the sign of a deadly calamity?!

Brian Carter’s mind was in turmoil. How could he convince her to believe him?

I’m just a martial apprentice now... What can I do to help Sister Grace avoid this deadly calamity?

“Um, actually, for something like a breakthrough, it doesn’t really matter if it’s done earlier or postponed, right?” Brian Carter said awkwardly, “...Or, well, it’s best to prepare a bit more, just in case.”

Grace Carter let go of her doubts, smiled sweetly, and said, “Don’t worry about me. But you... little puppy... why were you crying so sadly just now?”

Grace Carter had already made up her mind.

Tomorrow, she would go to Xingwu Academy and discuss this matter thoroughly with her teacher to find out exactly where the problem was.

“I really wasn’t crying, I just got something in my eye...” Brian Carter also pressed the matter to the back of his mind. Now that he knew, he couldn’t just stand by and do nothing.

No matter what, he had to resolve this!

Sister Grace absolutely, absolutely cannot die!

“Sister Grace, you’ve protected me for so many years. Now, it’s my turn to protect you!” Brian Carter said silently in his heart, making up his mind.

Grace Carter’s deadly calamity made it almost impossible for Brian Carter to breathe. Just thinking about it made his aura inexplicably violent.

His eyes were red.

He would risk his life to change this outcome.

He clenched his teeth so hard they creaked.

Night had already fallen.

Grace Carter sat on the edge of Brian Carter’s bed, frowning and lost in thought, her head aching a little; Xiaoduo can’t cultivate, so how can his aptitude be changed? Spiritual medicines that can change one’s aptitude are now priceless and haven’t appeared for a long time. If any do appear, they’re secretly taken by the big families, and no news ever leaks out...

What should she do?

And also... how did Brian somehow know about her breakthrough? Where did things go wrong?

……

Brian Carter was anxious as well.

Brian Carter had never believed he was truly useless.