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Chapter 9
Three nights later, once he'd squared things with Gus, Silas set out for Sky Burial Mountain proper.His conversion to the Green Lotus Method had gone smoothly over the past few days, and his spiritual reserves had more than doubled as a result.Even with that boost, his low-grade root still capped his overall pace steady progress, but slower than he'd like.Which left him with one option: brave the market and buy what he needed, both to finally set up a proper spirit-gathering array and to begin experimenting with alchemy.The Market sat on a broad shelf of flat ground partway up Sky Burial Mountain the only trading hub in the entire sect. Outer disciple or true disciple, everyone came here eventually, and everyone found what they needed.Silas arrived disguised black robe, a green fox mask and found the street already lit and crowded despite the hour.Cultivators didn't keep conventional schedules; day and night blurred together for most of them, which meant the market never really
Chapter 8
Just when everyone assumed the affair had finally burned itself out, a second wave of spiritual pressure erupted from the outer sect grounds.The same informant who'd exposed the murdered maid, it turned out, hadn't stopped there — every rotten thing these men had done, in both the inner and outer sects, came out in the same breath.Marcus Thane, master of the outer sect and a cultivator at the ninth stage of Foundation Building, was run through with a blade and pinned to the earth. His own son was executed alongside him.By that point, Seraphina had turned murderous enough to want the remaining accomplices dead as well — until a Golden Core Lord physically stepped in to stop her.In the end, only the four principal offenders paid with their lives. The rest were spared."If I ever get the chance," Silas said, with real sincerity, "I'd like to pay my respects to her.""Wouldn't we all," Gus said, nodding. "Everyone in the sect worships the ground she walks on these days — calls her a g
Chapter 7
The next day, Silas found Bram's body not far from where the phoenix crown had been laid to rest.He wasn't surprised. If anything, he'd half expected it.Bram, in his final hours, had likely believed himself blessed convinced that a true disciple baring his soul to two strangers meant something like friendship.Silas understood it differently. Evander hadn't wanted friends. He'd wanted someone, anyone, to unload thirty years of grief onto before it crushed him from the inside.Had Bram been of equal standing, none of this would have mattered. But he wasn't, and he'd made the fatal mistake of believing a story like that came free of consequence.Evander was a true disciple heir to the sect itself. Secrets belonging to men like that weren't meant for outer disciples to carry.If Silas had lingered as long as Bram had, there would have been two bodies waiting for him this morning instead of one. That was precisely why he'd excused himself the moment the story began and, notably, why he'
Chapter 6
The bell hadn't rung. It was noise outside his hut that pulled Silas from his cultivation this time.He pushed the door open to find Bram fawning over a stranger a striking young man dressed in fine silk, carrying himself with the kind of effortless, dangerous elegance that belonged only to serious cultivators. Something about him made the air itself feel heavier.Silas had never seen even Rowan Chase's people carry themselves with that kind of presence. There was only one explanation: this was someone from well above the inner sect. Possibly even a true disciple.The man was cradling a woman in his arms dressed in a phoenix crown and wedding red, her face beautiful enough to belong in a painting.She wasn't breathing. She'd been dead for some time.Silas found himself staring, quietly certain he'd never seen a more beautiful woman in his life, living or otherwise.As the pair passed by, Bram shot Silas a hard, warning look don't you dare make a scene this time.Silas ignored it entir
Chapter 5
Five uneventful days passed. Silas spent them cultivating, inching steadily toward the fourth stage of Qi training.He was in no rush to actually build the spirit-gathering array the Formation Peak disciples had left in his hands he had neither the spirit stones nor the raw materials to construct it properly, and figured it made more sense to break into the mid-stage of cultivation first and worry about formations later.Bram, for his part, spent those five days sulking — though not over Silas. He had bigger concerns.The Outer Sect Grand Tournament was coming.Nothing on Sky Burial Mountain drew a crowd quite like it. Beyond simply crowning the strongest outer disciple, the tournament offered something far more valuable: its top three finishers were promoted directly into the inner sect.Ordinarily, earning a place among the inner disciples meant grinding all the way to the seventh stage of Qi training — a benchmark that sounded modest and was anything but. Most disciples with real t
Chapter 4
The next morning, freshly washed, Silas heard the bell ring again.Near the bridge, he was surprised to find Bram already there a rare sight, since Bram usually kept to his loft or vanished on errands, never showing interest in corpse duty itself.Watching Bram bow and greet several arriving disciples told him immediately: whoever had died this time mattered.His fingers twitched with anticipation."Greetings, senior brothers." Silas bowed to the white-robed group, mourning bands visible on their heads, and included Bram in the courtesy out of habit.Bram, predictably, ignored him — too busy performing enthusiasm for an audience that, unlike Silas, returned the courtesy without condescension."If you two wouldn't mind," one of the visiting disciples said, voice rough with grief, "help us choose a resting place for Junior Brother Elden."Formation Peak, Silas noted, recognizing the badge at the man's waist."Consider it done!" Bram said quickly, thumping his own chest. "I know this gro
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