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Chapter 322
As a normal grown man, there was a limit to what could be ignored.Three adult women with clothing whose intentions were already obvious, standing at his door tonight after a full day of pushing his spiritual energy almost to empty—this wasn't a situation that could be met with a cold head.But somewhere in the back of his mind, there was one face that wouldn't leave.Short black hair. Brown eyes that went red when looked at too directly. A smile that surfaced before it could be hidden.Layla.Who was waiting back at The Grandeur, thinking about who-knows-what.Caelan drew a quiet breath."There's no need." His voice came out steadier than it might have sounded if anyone could hear his heartbeat. "I don't need it."The black-haired one stepped closer.One step—enough to make the distance between them very small, enough to make the warmth of her body something concrete rather than just a suggestion. Something soft, full, and warm pressed against Caelan's stomach. Not in any threatening
Chapter 321
"We're here to serve you, Sect Leader."The red-haired one spoke—in a tone that had returned to the professional register, different from the one at the carriage earlier, the way of someone who already knows her position and has grown accustomed to it. "You are the new sect leader now. It is our duty to serve you."The other two nodded. In unison, the way people do when they've agreed on something before knocking.Caelan looked at all three of them.Then let out a slow breath.As if he had just realized there was one thing that had been missed in everything he'd done today—a conversation that should have happened much earlier.Mo Xuan was dead.That should have meant one very clear thing to the three people standing at his door—that the chain keeping them on this hill no longer existed, that there was no longer anything to serve or guard or fear. But apparently, years inside a system like that taught something that didn't simply vanish just because the system itself was gone.They sti
Chapter 320
After everything that had happened throughout the day, Caelan decided to rest in Mo Xuan's room.And as he'd expected, given Mo Xuan's nature, the room was not a room that fit any reasonable definition of reasonable.The bed at its center was large enough to fit four people comfortably—with a black wooden frame carved at every post, a canopy of dark red fabric hanging from above, and a mattress that, when Caelan pressed it with one hand, felt like something that shouldn't exist in the same category as an ordinary mattress.On the right side was a dark wood vanity with a gold-framed mirror, covered in bottles of perfume and cream in numbers Caelan had never seen in one place before. On the left, a bookshelf—but not books on cultivation or strategy or anything useful. This was a collection of art scrolls filled with obscene illustrations. A genuinely disgusting hobby.The hanging lanterns on the ceiling used crystals instead of ordinary candles, casting a warm yellow light that never fl
Chapter 319
Over an hour.Caelan read the way someone reads when they can't stop in the middle of a page not because the material is interesting, but because every page finished only added to a list that kept growing longer in his head.The document was thick for the wrong reasons.Not thick because a lot had been done—thick because a lot had been recorded but never acted on. Report after report written by this man in neat ink, filed in an orderly way despite the disorder of the room, and then never read by anyone with the power to change what was inside them.The main road of Lotus Village had been damaged for three years. Repair requests had been submitted twice, and never received a response.The water source in Lianhe Village dried up every dry season, forcing residents to walk two hours round trip to draw water from the nearest alternative—recorded four years ago, and no one had ever come to look.Farmland in Baishan Village had been eroding on its southern side, reducing the harvest by near
Chapter 318
The Blood River Sect sat atop the hill in full opulence, as if it had never needed to consider who lived beneath it.Its outer walls were similar in scale to the Spirit Lantern Sect—but that was where the similarities ended. The pavilions were lined with tiles that were still new, columns repainted not too long ago, small gardens between the buildings that clearly had someone assigned to tend them every day. Lanterns hung along evenly paved walkways, their light never left to die out.Grand, by small sect standards.Excessive, by any reasonable measure.Caelan walked in with Rex at his side, passing through a gate opened by guards who didn't know whether to welcome them or brace for something worse. Behind them, the group that had been with Mo Xuan—seven Spirit Realm guards, the three women from the carriage, and the three Soul Realm cultivators who had been unconscious but were now awake—entered in silence.Caelan looked at the building in front of him.Lotus Village sat at the foot
Chapter 317
When she had taken enough from it, the woman stepped back.One step, two.Then stood straight, her breathing already steady again, her eyes still looking down at Mo Xuan but with something different in them from a few moments before.Lighter.Like something that had lived in her chest for a very long time had finally found a way to no longer be there.Then a young man stepped forward.Twenty years old, maybe slightly younger—with a face that still carried the marks of someone who hadn't been bearing something heavy for very long.He stood in front of Mo Xuan.Looked down."My mother," his voice came out quiet, "worked the fields from before sunrise to after sunset, every single day, for the past five years. Not to live well—just to pay the taxes you set. Taxes that made no sense, that had no basis, that you raised every time you felt you needed more."His eyes went to Mo Xuan's face, which no longer looked anything like the face that had stepped off that carriage."She wasn't sick. Sh
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