Kai Feng was a idback young man in his early twenties with no ambitions. He was happy to lead his life in an ordinary and uing way, finding fort in his daily routine. His greatest joy was reading, and he spent most of his free time buried in books rather than engaging in any physical activities like sports. With a slightly slim build and an unassuming stature, Kai was the type of person who could blend effortlessly into any crowd, rarely drawing attention to himself.

  Naturally Kai worked as a librarian. His life was a monotonous routine of s and cataloging books. One evening, as he was reanizing a se of the library, his eyes nded on an old manuscript, its worn, fragile pages out of pce among the ly stacked volumes.

  Curiosity piqued, he picked it up and flipped through its cryptic stanzas of poetry, which seemed meaningless at first gnce. Yet, for reasons he couldn’t expin, he kept on reading the book. He wasn’t even particurly ied in its tents—yet something pelled him to tinue.

  Time passed unnoticed. The library had long since closed for the night, leaving him alone in the dimly lit reading room. As he turo the st page, a soft glow began to emanate from the part. The glow intensified until a blinding beam of light shot out, engulfing him pletely. Before he could react, his body froze—suspended in a stasis barrier, unmoving and unresponsive.

  A portal tore open in the air, revealing two identical young women flowing bt garments. They had striking, youthful appearaheir long, silky bck hair cascaded down their backs, atuating their fair, fwless skin. Their eyes, sharp and captivating, gleamed with a mysterious light—oh a steely, calg gaze, the other with a pyful glint. Despite their beauty, there was an undeniable sense of mena their poised movements, as if they were both light and shadow, dang on the edge of battle. They stepped into the library, their faces exude curiosity as they approached the glowing barrier that held Kai.

  “It has begun,” one murmured to the other.

  Moments ter, a sed portal shimmered ience, and two men emerged, their white robes like celestial banners swaying in the air. The older of the two, though not by much, had a anding presence. His long hair was tied ly behind him, and his features carried the fidence of experiehe younger man beside him, slightly less seasoned carried himself with disciplined precision. His pierg gaze held a quiet iy, his stance banced and poised, ready to strike at any moment. Though he followed his senior's lead, there was no doubt that he was a formidable for his ht. Their very presence exuded a sense hteousness and power.

  “We’re too te,” one of them said grimly.

  They stepped forward, preparing to break the stasis barrier, but the two girls immediately moved to intercept them.

  “Demoniches!” one of the white-robed men spat, his expression twisted in disdain.

  A battle erupted. The twin girls, despite their identical appearance, fought with trasting styles—one unleashing raw energy bsts, while the other wielded a sword with fluid precision.

  The energy-wielding girl carried no on. She jured a teique called “Shadow Eclipse Wave”, sending rippling dark shockwaves through the air. Her oppo tered with “Heaven’s Sundering Light,” an explosive beam of radiant Qi that split the darkness in two.

  The sword-wielding twin moved with “Phantom Mirage Strike”, a teique that created a mirage of multiple swords striking from different angles. Her movements so fluid that she seemed to phase in and out of reality. Her oppo tered with “Flowing Cloud Teique”. The csh sent sparks flying through the air as their bdes met in rapid succession.

  Reizing that the twins’ synergy made them far too dangerous together, one of the men called out, “Split them apart!”

  Each took on one of the twins in a furious one-on-one duel. It turned out to be a good strategy as the sword-wielding girl was eventually overpowered, allowing her oppoo turn his attention back to the barrier. eling his Qi-irikes, he attacked the barrier relentlessly, but the stasis field refused to break.

  “Together!” he called to his panion.

  Both men biheir most powerful teiques, unleashing a devastating assault upon the barrier. One invoked “Heavenly Starfall Judgment,” summoniial energy that crashed down like meteors. The other executed “Void Pierg Lance,” an attack that trated all of his Qi into a single pierg point, meant to shatter the fabric of energy itself.

  The sheer force of their bined assault caused the ground to quake, the air humming with votile energy as golden and silver light cshed against the barrier. Books y scattered as tattered pages fluttered through the air, drifting around the room like snowfall on a winter day. The stasis bubble shuddered violently but did not break. The a magic holding Kai remained intact, defying even the most destructive teiques. Kai remained frozen, seemingly oblivious to the chaos unfolding around him.

  Finally, exhausted, the four batants ceased their fighting. Realizing they could do nothing, the four warriors lowered their ons. They sat down, surrounding Kai’s frozen figure encased in the energy bubble, waiting in silence.

  It was an absurd sight—four cultivators, locked in a deadly rivalry, now forced to meditate around an ordinary young man trapped in an energy co.