Chapter 201: Barrier

"I can break it," Arran repeated, louder this time.

"Could someone silence this delusional child?" Elder Feng's voice held a hint of annoyance, but no more than that.

"Let him speak," Elder Naran said sharply. Then, he turned to Arran. "Are you certain?" There was doubt in his eyes, but he did not dismiss the idea outright.

Arran hesitated before speaking. "I am," he finally said. "Mostly."

Ancestral Seal or not, he'd recognized the formation almost immediately. Although it was larger and formed from Fire instead of Shadow Essence, the pattern it used was a near-perfect match for the seal on his Destruction Realm. And after years of having the seal inside him, he could not possibly fail to notice the likeness.

That alone would not have given him confidence in breaking it, of course. The seal was something he could not break, and had the formation exactly matched it, he would have had no way to deal with it.