GRAND MASTER YU PART 1

"When the stars align beneath the jade moon..." her mother's whisper seemed to crystallize in the darkness, each word carrying weight like drops of mercury falling through still water.

"The heavens themselves shall bow and bend." The answering voice emerged from the void as if the darkness itself had learned to speak, its ethereal tone sending ripples through the spiritual essence that saturated the air. Li Hua felt the words resonate in her very core, causing her to clutch tighter to her father's back.

Her trained assassin's senses—which had never failed to detect a presence before—hadn't registered even a whisper of the speaker's existence. In her past life, she had tracked elite operatives through pitch-black rooms and sensed killers through concrete walls, but this... this was different. It was as if the voice existed outside the bounds of physical space itself.

"Grand Master Yu." Her parents bowed in unison, their movements carrying practiced reverence.