A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6763

Master Veridian nodded and turned away to make inquiries.

Jared kept his attention on the Water Clan girl. Deep in his core, the strand of Water Clan power that had resisted every attempt at refinement suddenly leaped.

The movement was violent, like a heart dormant for 10,000 years abruptly beginning to beat. An unfamiliar resonance spread upward through his meridians and thudded a heavy rhythm against his chest.

Jared stiffened slightly.

The force had never reacted so intensely. Normally, it rested in a corner of his core as quietly as a stone sunk in deep water.

Now, as if awakened by something unseen, it trembled wildly like a fish fighting to escape a net.

The vibration traveled through his meridians until his limbs began to tingle.

At the same moment, the Water Clan girl's pupils contracted.

Her deep blue eyes snapped toward Jared. They pierced layer after layer of bodies and the roar of countless voices to find him with perfect accuracy.

She opened her mouth slightly, and her breath caught sharply.

For a long time, she stared at him. Surprise, confusion, and another emotion she could not name rippled through eyes that had held only anger and defiance.

It was as though a stone had struck the still surface of a deep lake, sending ring after ring outward.

As a member of the Water Clan, she possessed an innate sensitivity to power from the same source.

There could be no mistake. The aura was ancient and pure, unmistakably of her people. Some formidable gray force had enclosed and diluted it, but its origin remained unchanged.

What she could not understand was why that aura existed inside a human cultivator.

Inside Jared, the violent resonance ebbed little by little until the unexpected tidal wave became still.

There was no doubt that she had detected the same connection.

He suppressed the disturbance within him and made no immediate approach.

This was no time to acknowledge the connection. Too many spectators and watchful eyes surrounded them.

Master Veridian squeezed back through the crowd. His expression was complicated, and the crush of bodies had left him looking somewhat disheveled.

He leaned close to Jared and lowered his voice until it mingled with the sea wind and the clamor around them. "I found out what happened. The girl was pursuing a corrupted aquatic beast through the outer waters when hunters from Azurewave Island spotted her.

"The wounded beast was wrapped in black aura and fled all the way into the shallows near the island.

"She followed it, only to be caught in a restriction net the hunters had prepared specifically against the Water Clan.

"They say it was woven from deep-sea mystic iron and special warding sigils. Water Clan spiritual energy is suppressed almost completely inside it.

"As for why they captured her... no one knows. The people in charge are keeping their mouths shut. They won't reveal a word even to old friends over tea.

"I tried asking several people, but the moment I mentioned the matter, they walked away."

Master Veridian's report deepened Jared's frown.

A net made specifically to suppress the Water Clan meant the capture had been planned rather than improvised.

Even cultivators who had spent their lives at sea knew nothing of the reason, proving that whoever stood behind it had sealed the news exceptionally tightly.

Jared returned his gaze to the girl.

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