All Chapters of Heaven's Bound: The Rise Of The Infernal Sage: Chapter 31
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Chapter 31
Jian Lei's POVThe healer at Azure Origin's infirmary hall worked a salve into my bruised ribs with hands that were efficient rather than gentle, muttering under her breath about disciples who insisted on standing back up when any sensible person would have stayed down."Nothing broken," she said finally, wrapping a fresh bandage around my ribs with practiced speed. "Which honestly surprises me, given what I'm hearing about how that match went. You'll ache for a week, maybe two, but you'll heal clean.""Thank you," I said, wincing as she tied off the bandage a little tighter than necessary."Don't thank me," she said. "Thank whatever stubbornness kept your skull off the ground long enough to avoid worse. Now get out of my hall before you scare off the disciples who actually need my attention for real injuries."I limped back to the outer disciple dormitory well past midday, every step sending fresh aches through muscles I hadn't known I could bruise, and found Zhao and my other two ro
Last Updated : 2026-07-13
Chapter 32
Jian Lei's POV"I never told you what happened to my parents," I said, the words surfacing before I'd fully decided to speak them, the cave's quiet somehow making it easier to say things I'd carried silently for years.Mei Lin'er's hand stilled in mine. "You mentioned they died when you were young. You never said how.""Fever," I said. "The same season, only weeks apart. I was six. I don't remember much about either of them, honestly, just fragments. My mother's voice singing something in the evenings. My father's hands, rough from farm work, lifting me up onto his shoulders once during a festival." I stared at the small flame still flickering faintly around my fingers. "Sun Hao took me in after that. Never formally adopted me, the village never made it official, but he fed me, taught me what he could, made sure Elder Fang's cruelty never went further than words.""I didn't know that," Mei Lin'er said softly. "I always assumed there was more family somewhere. Aunts, cousins, someone."
Last Updated : 2026-07-13
Chapter 33
Jian Lei's POV, and Wen Kui's POVI didn't know it then, wrapped in exhaustion and grief in that quiet cave with Mei Lin'er's hand still warm around mine, but far above us in the sect's central spire, Grand Elder Wen Kui had finally opened the drawer he'd left untouched for years.*This account comes to me secondhand, pieced together later from what Examiner Liao would eventually tell me about the man he'd served under for decades, but I've come to trust it as truth, and I set it down here as Wen Kui himself must have lived it that night.*Wen Kui sat alone in his study long after Examiner Liao's letter had first arrived, the candle beside him burned down to a stub, and finally, with the particular reluctance of a man approaching a wound he'd kept bandaged for a very long time, he drew Sun Hao's old letter from the locked drawer at the base of his desk and broke the cracked wax seal.The handwriting inside was familiar in a way that made his chest tighten before he'd even read the fir
Last Updated : 2026-07-13