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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
Chapter 313
Caelan looked at the seven Spirit Realm cultivators still standing.His eyes moved across them one by one—not the way someone assesses a threat, but the way someone has already finished assessing and is now simply delivering the result."If you want to end up like those three, come forward." His voice came out quiet—not threatening, not condescending, more like a statement that already knew what would follow. "But I'll spare anyone willing to put their sword down."One second of silence.Then all seven swords came down.Not simultaneously—one person first, then the others following in a domino that needed no coordination because everyone had already arrived at the same conclusion from the same data.Three Soul Realm cultivators had gone down in a span of time that couldn't even properly be called seconds. And the man standing among three unconscious bodies had no extra sweat, no heavier breathing, nothing different from before any of it began.Fighting him was a decision no logic coul
Chapter 312
Mo Xuan clenched his fists.One long breath—the kind drawn by someone reaching for something not easily found."I offered you something good, Grand Healer." His voice came out trying to reclaim the steadiness it had before, but not quite managing it—there was a tremor at the edges of his words. "And you dare try to take my throne?!" The clenched fists tightened further. "I won't allow it!"Inside his head, something was turning.This man was clearly a powerful cultivator—there was no other explanation for someone healing two thousand people in under half a day. But powerful didn't mean unbeatable. And more importantly—this man was a healer. It was impossible for someone to be exceptional at two disciplines at once. If he was extraordinary in medicine, logic dictated he had to be poor in combat. That was always how it worked.And Mo Xuan—Peak Soul Realm, having spent years honing that single thing and nothing else—had very good odds of beating him.But another question surfaced.What i
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