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Chapter 621
My expression must have given something away, because my master raised an eyebrow. “Are you okay, Yuan?”Granny Lang said slowly, “With a spirit aspect you can fight it, but the Divine Tree’s nature is not one of destruction, and that is the only thing we have strong enough to reach that level. To actually kill it… I don’t see what to do without another form of power entirely. Unless you tried to nullify it instead of destroy it, but that would take…” Her eyes widened and she trailed off.My master’s eyes narrowed. He was always quick.Perhaps it was my expression; perhaps it was something they already knew but had not accepted until they looked at me. “There is a way,” I confirmed flatly. “It can be sealed and subsumed, its will erased and the cycle freed.”“But not without an equal sacrifice,” my master whispered. “Ki must have told you this already, so why did you not tell us before now?”“She told me, yes. The Fifth Law. The price of true immortality, the cost of ending a cycle. T
Chapter 620
I looked at the three people gathered in my room, doors closed to give us privacy. Yin watched me with a curious expression, as did Granny Lang and my master. I’d asked them to meet without naming a topic and they had come without pause, leaving benches, cauldrons, and ledgers in the middle of tasks.“Why have you called us here?” my master was first to ask. “What is it you need to discuss, disciple? Perhaps you’ve discovered something about those purification pills? Or is there something else you want to make?”Granny Lang squinted at me, then snorted. “I wouldn’t be surprised. Even with the world ending, you’re always invested in finding out more about the path of Alchemy, making something new, doing anything at all to sate your curiosity.” She jerked her chin toward Yin. “The girl has been logging trials in triplicate. Your habit spread.”I chuckled at her words. I knew she was joking, she didn’t truly think whatever I was making right now, such as the purification pills, was purel
Chapter 619
The city that used to be a village, now quiet and dominated by the distant tree that kept the worst thing from walking, while its lesser spawn still needed to be cut down every day.“Knowing you, my lord, you probably don’t want to hurt them. But I assure you, not telling them would hurt them even more than if you were to just confess. And weren’t you the one who always says that it’s better for many people to think through a solution than for a single person to do so? Then wouldn’t it be better for you to come clean to your master, to Yin, to your loved ones? Many are great and knowledgeable people, surely you could try to come together with a solution with them? One that doesn’t rely on concealing the truth of what you face?”I didn’t answer immediately. I set the pen down across the top of the book and moved the inkwell two fingers to the left so I wouldn’t knock it over. “What would I say? If I gather them and tell them this, what do I say that doesn’t tear something open before w
Chapter 618
For a second, the instinct to not hurt my friends roared forward… and then dulled. The desire not to lie to Qiao Ying, not to lie to my friends, took over. I sighed. “I met… Ki, I assume the others have told you about that part?”“General Zhang did tell me what you’d experienced, my lord, meeting the Qilin and being acknowledged as the Divine Child chosen by the Tree of Life, but…” He glanced down at the book under my hand. His voice grew faint, almost choked. “You cannot mean to…”“Would you rather I stand by and watch the world be destroyed, the cycle locked to death’s whims?”“Of course not, but surely you can find another way. You have so much knowledge, so much power! You are the most wise sage ever to be born. You have defied fate and the heavens so many times. Surely you can find another way.”“I hope so too. Trust me, I don’t want to…” I struggled to find a word, since I wouldn’t die, not exactly, but no longer be myself. Eventually settled on, “I have no desire to leave you a
Chapter 617
I looked down at the book as I noted my plans. The page already held neat rows of tasks and arrows connecting them. The ink had dried unevenly where my pen had paused over certain words. The Divine Tree’s leaves would naturally have to be mixed with the bombs. Bombs, lasers, and the Divine Tree leaves together?Perhaps that combo could damage the evil god. Maybe even kill him.I would need to look into that, get some references. Maybe even talk to Matriarch Shie more about it, I thought, though I wasn’t sure if she would know. The easy way would be to talk to my master and Granny Lang, but was I really willing to hurt them with this knowledge?I noted the idea down anyway. I had to tell Yin to add those leaves in. After that, I had to try testing these leaves and see if I could use them as batteries. If I connected them to the Divine Tree, could they potentially restore Matriarch Shie’s and my master’s cultivation? Hell, if they can restore cultivation, can they grant cultivation to m
Chapter 616
The room was quiet except for the soft hum of the ward and the sound of breathing. Yin stood with the tray. Granny Lang watched with her arms folded. My master sat with his hands on his knees.The envoy looked at me with slight surprise still, clearly surprised I was back so soon. He probably expected me to take a few days—so did I, honestly, but my master and Granny Lang were just too knowledgeable.The two earth spirits waited behind the glass. They looked stiff and tired. The envoy stood near the door, jaw tight.“We’ll start,” I said.He gave a short nod.I slid the first pill through the slot. The escort spirit spoke in low sounds and placed it on the test spirit’s tongue. We waited. I counted breaths. Ten. Twenty. Thirty.At first nothing. Then the spirit’s eyes moved. He blinked twice, and his brow drew tight, as though waking from a bad dream. His hands opened and closed and he took a breath that didn’t scrape on the way in. His mouth trembled. His eyes filled.“I think giving
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