All Chapters of Ashes To The Peak: Chapter 11
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Chapter 11: Blood Mandrake.
From Zareth’s memories, he had realized that one of the Red Panda Gang’s businesses revolved around the Blood Mandrake. The Blood Mandrake was a controlled medicinal plant, primarily used in the refinement of healing pills.Its roots and even its blood-red sap possessed remarkable medicinal properties. When properly refined by an alchemist, the root could become an essential ingredient in pills capable of replenishing lost blood, treating severe internal injuries, and accelerating the recovery of damaged organs.Because of this, Blood Mandrakes were highly sought after by alchemists and healing guilds throughout the surrounding towns. Yet despite their immense medicinal value, Blood Mandrakes were not plants that could simply be bought and sold freely.They were controlled by the Alchemist Association.Blood Mandrakes possessed another property that made them particularly dangerous in the hands of unscrupulous people.With the proper refining method, certain parts of the root could be
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Chapter 12: The Mastermind in the Dirt.
Gao gritted his teeth as he was fuming more and more as his hand trembled as he still clutched Zareth on the wall, as his thoughts were wondering how does he even know, and what is he to do with this situation."Don't even think of killing me, Gao," Zareth said at that moment as he forced his voice out through the suffocating clutch on his thin neck. The cold, unyielding iron in his tone chilled the thug to the bone. "I am more valuable than you think in the Red Panda Gang, so the Red Panda himself values me more than anyone else. Hence, he wants me to live more than anyone else." Zareth forced his raspy voice through his tight throat, his eyes locking onto Gao with terrifying intensity. "And thanks to me, your Red Panda Gang profits from the Blood Mandrake. So think carefully, if you kill me now, you will follow me straight to the grave."Gao trembled more and more, horror draining every last drop of blood from his face. Finally, his fingers uncurled, and he released his hold, letti
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Chapter 13: From Heaven Origin to the Dirt.
Inside the private chamber..."Are you crazy?! How can you even say something like that out loud, and how on earth can you even think that I would ever be part of such madness?!" the other man hissed, dropping his voice as low as humanly possible, his face turning pale with sheer terror.Two men sat together within one of the dimly lit private rooms of the upper floor of the pleasure house, right above the alley where Zareth had been left sitting. Below, Zareth’s hyper-acute hearing locked onto every single syllable escaping their lips.Inside the room, one man was entirely bald with a heavy jaw, while the other possessed long hair tied neatly behind his back, the very man who had just casually proposed the plot to murder a gang leader."Don't worry so much about it, Edgar," the long-haired man whispered, completely unbothered. He reached out, picked up a small cup of wine, and took a casual, carefree sip. "My Shrouding Gang will protect you when the deed is done.""Protected?! But Re
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Chapter 14: The Remote Fringe World.
Day one of work after awakening as Zareth Crow was finally over as the crimson sun dipped low beneath the horizon, casting long, bruised shadows across the alleys. Later that day, Gao returned to the corner near the pleasure house where he had left Zareth, roughly scooping up the paralyzed youth and carrying him back in the exact same manner he had brought him there.Nothing more of immediate consequence occurred for the remainder of that afternoon, despite the dangerous assassination plot brewing against the Red Panda. However, Zareth had gained something invaluable: he got to experience firsthand how things truly functioned around this desolate place. Rather than relying merely on fragments of the original Zareth’s memories, he had personally observed, felt, and processed the living layout of the world around him.Through his observations and also memories, Zareth confirmed the socio-political structure of Blackwater Town. The entire settlement was divided into five distinct regio
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Chapter 15: Forty-Six Years Old in the Dark.
In that instant, Zareth was completely drenched in sweat.Without lingering any further, Gao stepped out of the shabby abode, muttering casually to himself under his breath. The thug took Zareth’s unexpected question as nothing more than a passing, eccentric inquiry from a sickly boy, not bothering to think twice about it, nor asking why he was suddenly curious about distant, legendary figures.Left entirely alone in the suffocating darkness of the room, Zareth lay paralyzed, cold sweat pouring down his pale face, his chest heaving as pure, violent shock gripped his mind.Twenty years... How could that even be possible?To his consciousness, the transition from being burned to absolute nothingness upon the Judgement Summit to awakening inside this frail, dying body had felt like nothing more than a single night’s sleep, a momentary lapse in awareness where he closed his eyes in agony and reopened them in a new reality. Now, he was being told that two full decades had silently slippe
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Chapter 16: The Purge of Impurities.
With his breathing perfectly being regulated, the condensed sphere of raw Wind Aether Qi continued to rotate within the darkness of his inner sea, unstable and turbulent beneath the immense pressure of his soul power.Zareth focused his consciousness upon it with absolute, unwavering intensity, carefully extending his spiritual perception around the spinning sphere.He could not simply push it forward with brute force.The moment he attempted to force too much of the raw Aether Qi out at once, the entire condensed sphere trembled violently, its liquid boundaries distorting and threatening to scatter apart into useless, wasted atmospheric energy.Zareth gritted his teeth, his jaw clenching so hard his teeth groaned under the strain."Slowly..." he commanded his own mind.He controlled his breathing once more, establishing a rhythmic, meditative cadence.Inhale.Hold.Exhale.With his exhalation, he delicate-handedly separated a thin, single strand of raw Aether Qi from the rotating sph
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