A blinding wave of celestial gold erupted from the Fallow Slate.
Inside Kaelen’s sea of consciousness, the Stage 3 Valve locked into place with a resonance that shook his spiritual sea to its bedrock.
The locked 720-hour Milestone Seal was released.
The 7,210-fold Cultivation multiplier engaged across his entire meridian network.
To the outside world, physical time continued its normal, steady tick.
To Kaelen Vance, the physical universe slowed down to an absolute crawl.
Under the massive 7,210-fold acceleration, each minute of real time poured over seven thousand hours of deep progress into his meridians. A brief five-minute window equaled thirty-six thousand and fifty hours of continuous growth.
More than four full years of non-stop, unbroken meditation, compressed into the time it took to boil a pot of tea.
