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Chapter 662
Being an alchemist in a mansion, retired, just experimenting… It totally rocked! Exactly like I’d assumed, which, duh.I woke when I wanted, brewed when I felt like it, and stopped the moment the room started to smell more of singed herbs than progress. It was an amazing lifestyle, satisfying and carefree by turns, hard enough to be a challenge and unrestricted enough to limit frustration to the bare minimum.Especially since I had Flee, Ash, Ren, Nyan to accompany me. Speaking of Nyan, that cat truly was something, disappearing whenever it wanted to and then randomly reappearing; I’d even learned it had saved two soldiers in the final battle, but I didn’t even know about it until months later!The mansion had more rooms than we needed and more corners than any sweeping schedule could truly handle, but it gave us space: a quiet library with a long table that held three pill furnaces in a row; a sunlit corridor where Ash preferred to nap, stretched across the warm tiles; a back courtya
Chapter 661
“T—This!” Granny Lang exclaimed.“Y—You’re alive, but I thought, the sacrifice—” The word twisted on Zhang’s tongue as if it hurt to say it now. Granny Lang slapped his shoulder lightly without looking at him, the kind of quick correction that said he did not need to finish that sentence anymore.“Master!” Flee yelled and leapt into my arms, sobbing as she hugged me. Her weight hit my ribs and made them protest, and I tightened my grip anyway. I looked at the others and beckoned my free arm, inviting them into the hug too.For a second, I thought they’d refuse.But then Zhang’s arm wrapped around my shoulders from one side, careful not to squeeze the bruises he could feel through the cloth. Yan Yun’s cheek pressed against my back for a moment, a short contact that said more than any words she could have crafted. Liuxiang reached over two others and hooked a hand through my sleeve, as if to anchor herself, and then remembered herself and let go only to take my wrist with a better grip.
Chapter 660
My parents of this life looked at me with smiles. My mother mouthed, “Thank you.” My father said, “I’m proud of you.” The words were soundless, and yet they filled my heart with something steady. My stomach lurched. I had not expected to see them here; I had not allowed myself to imagine it.My hands lifted without thought and then lowered again, because reach would have turned into grasp, and grasp had no place in this moment. The line between the living and the dead was clear, held the way the Tree held, because that was what the world asked it to do.Feng Sha was the one to step forward. “You have done enough,” the Black Tortoise said, smiling. The corners of his mouth were turned up as he set his palm up, asking for mine.When I placed my hand on his, I felt the trace of the shell that wasn’t visible now, the firm, woven reinforcement that had protected others long before it protected him.“We shall help you.” His voice was certain and carried no doubt.The Divine Beasts held each
Chapter 659
Yin’s crews, usually loud with clipped commands and the scrape of loading gear, fell quiet except for the low murmur of someone counting softly out of habit.A drummer lowered a stick onto the drumhead and left it there rather than mark the moment with sound. The healers near the Tree kept to their tasks, because abandoning a patient for ceremony felt wrong to them, but even they turned their faces toward the brightness each time they lifted a cup or set a stitch.Each a different mixture—relief, grief, exhaustion, a hard fragile pride—but every face held stillness.***Beyond the lines, citizens filled alleys and rooftops. Some cheered in ragged bursts; some folded to their knees and pressed their foreheads to the ground without knowing the names of the powers at work.Children reached upward and then looked to their parents for whether to laugh or keep still.A vendor propped a broken wheel on stones to square his cart while he stared; an old woman pulled a scarf tighter over her ha
Chapter 658
Yin stood on the ridge where her crews had lined cannon rails for weeks. She had already stripped off her gloves; the webbing still carried a dusting of ash that would not wipe clean on the first pass. Her goggles hung at her throat.She did not call an order or reach for a failing safety. There was nothing left to time or adjust. She gripped the railing and kept her eyes on the crown of the Tree as if monitoring a fuse. When the light swelled, her mouth tightened and then softened again. She lowered her head a fraction and set her shoulders so none of her crew would see them shake.Yuan had done it, after all. He’d saved them all, at the cost of his own life.***Yan Yun planted the butt of her spear in the cracked earth and held it there with both hands. The shaft bore nicks from the last charge; her palms rested in the familiar places between them.She watched the brightness without blinking, then clenched her jaw once, hard enough to send a small tremor across the muscle at her ch
Chapter 657
I leapt at the Demon God as it screamed and used the Fourth Law of Cultivation: Domain.I tapped into the world, into my domain, using everything present to bolster the Tree of Life for just a split second, just long enough for it to be able to use its roots to bind the Demon God in another quasi-cage. There was no time to build a cage from nothing. I took what was already there: the roots, the broken stone columns half buried in soil, the metal plates our engineers had laid, the very weight of the air under the Tree’s crown.I told them to act together for a single purpose. The roots responded first, shooting out in thick coils that wrapped the Demon God at waist, chest, and throat. Smaller roots braided themselves into bands around wrists and ankles. The broken columns rose at my push and wedged into the gaps to give the roots something rigid to brace against. The plates slid under the Demon God’s feet and then up along the calves to keep it from finding ground to push against. The
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