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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
Chapter 316
Caelan looked at Mo Xuan lying on the ground.The man was still alive, still breathing, but not the way someone breathes freely. Both arms couldn't move. The pain that came from that was horrific. And his dantian was empty. What remained was a body without strength that couldn't go anywhere even if the brain inside it was still ordering him to run.Caelan shifted his gaze to the crowd around him."Is there anyone among you who has a grievance against him?"His voice came out without any judging tone. Just a statement that already knew the likely answer before it was given."Settle it today. Here."Silence.People looked at each other. Not because they had no answer to that question, but because they weren't used to being given permission to answer it. Like a door that had been locked too long, that didn't open immediately even when the key was lifted because the body hadn't yet trusted that this was truly allowed.Then came footsteps.One person moving forward.The red-haired woman.S
Chapter 315
Caelan's hand moved.To the Jianjing point at the shoulder—the junction of the gallbladder and triple warmer meridians, which when pressed in a specific way locked the movement of spiritual energy to every part of the body above it. Not to cause pain, but to ensure that what came next couldn't be resisted with spiritual energy directed outward.Mo Xuan felt something lock at his shoulder.Then—The Yanglingquan point, on the outside of the knee—the point controlling the tendons and joints throughout the lower body, which when pressed with the right pressure made every leg lose its ability to support any weight at all. Mo Xuan could no longer stand even if he wanted to.The Qimen point, at the chest—the gateway of the liver meridian, governing blood circulation and the distribution of qi to every organ. Pressure there produced a different pain from the Zhangmen before. Deeper, more constant, like something that kept throbbing without pause.Mo Xuan groaned.The sound that came out had
Chapter 314
"I know I have no right to ask for forgiveness. I know what I've done can't be erased with words. But I—I don't want to die, Grand Healer. I'm still young, I still have so much I want to do, I still—"His eyes flicked to Caelan's feet.Same position as before. Unchanged.And on Caelan's face—a cold expression that hadn't moved, that had been looking the same way since Mo Xuan started kneeling, giving no sign that his attention was anywhere else.But no one could truly pay attention to everything at once. Mo Xuan was certain of that. There had to be a moment when Caelan's guard opened.Mo Xuan began counting.One.Two.Three—Now!His hand moved to his back.In one motion—faster than he'd moved in a very long time, pouring every drop of Peak Soul Realm spiritual energy into it all at once—the sword came out of its scabbard.Dark red aura surged from hilt to blade, filling the sword's entire length until the gleam of that spiritual energy burned brighter than the village firelight aroun
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