Chapter 689 Heaven Opening Nine Swords

• For anyone to cultivate all the way to the Half-Step Divine Realm, natural talent alone could never suffice; somewhere along the journey, powerful strokes of fortune had to have intervened.
• Every cultivator held a personal trump card and a lifeline—in Samuel's case, that safeguard was precisely the Concealment Technique.
• It also explained his preference for shrouding himself in a loose black robe, not merely to avoid recognition but because the early stages of Concealment Technique required help from garments and similar props. Over time, that habit had become second nature.