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Chapter 10
The morning after they left the Temple of Roots the world felt too quiet even the wind had gone still as though the land itself was holding its breath.The temple’s open hand stood pale against the horizon its faint glow fading with each step they took away from it.Jin Mu didn’t look back he could still feel the temple’s pulse in his bones not painful just there like a memory under his skin.Orin walked beside him scribbling notes even as he stumbled over the uneven path. “If the murals were right,” he said, “then the ancients believed balance wasn’t born from harmony it was born from conflict. Life and death feeding each other in endless cycle.”“That’s not a belief,” Lian said quietly “It’s a warning.”Jin Mu glanced at her “You sound like you’ve read that somewhere.”She nodded once. “In the Lotus archives There’s a forbidden text called The Twelve Breaths of Heaven. It spoke of an immortal flame that would rise when Heaven’s scales fell out of balance A Death Flame.”Orin grinned
Chapter 10
Jin Mu stood before the open hand of stone the faintly glowing doorway pulsing like a slow heartbeat. Behind him Orin packed away the last of their supplies muttering about “ancient ruins that never end well,” while Lian knelt in the dust, whispering a quiet prayer.When she rose, she looked at Jin Mu. “Once we cross this line there’s no guarantee we’ll return.”He nodded. “There never was.”They stepped inside.The passage sloped downward walls carved with spiraling runes that shimmered faintly as they passed. The air was cool, heavy with the scent of wet stone and something older like rain soaked into earth that hadn’t seen daylight in centuries.Their footsteps echoed strangely Every sound seemed to come back slower than it should distorted by some unseen depth.Orin ran his fingers along a line of symbols “These markings… they’re not from any sect I know This language predates the Lotus age.”Lian traced another “These aren’t words They’re records each line is an emotion carved i
Chapter 9
The southern wind carried dust instead of rain.For three days they followed the old trade road a line of cracked stone half buried in sand the horizon shimmered with heat by day and glowed faintly violet by night as if the earth itself remembered the storm that had broken Heaven’s law.They rarely spoke.Orin limped now one leg bandaged from the ruins of the City of Veils. Lian walked ahead staff in hand, her eyes scanning the distance for movement Jin Mu kept to the rear silent his senses half in the world and half beyond it.The Death Qi inside him had changed.It no longer roared it breathed At times it felt almost gentle humming under his skin like an echo of wind through stone but when his focus slipped it swelled a tide pressing against its own boundaries.On the third morning they reached the edge of the Fallow Steppe a plain of gray grass and scattered stones. At its center stood the husk of a once-great tree, its roots fossilized into black glass.Orin shaded his eyes. “Tha
Chapter 8
Jin Mu felt nothing no pain, no air, no sound Just endless white stretching Then came the fall.He plummeted through clouds of smoke and thunder each flash revealing fragments of what had been the city’s towers collapsing the Lotus sigils burning away the faces of those who watched him defy Heaven’s strike.The storm wasn’t outside him anymore It was him.Silver veins of light ran across his arms each pulsing with the same rhythm as his heart. His body felt weightless his breath lost somewhere between the living and the dead.Then the voice came deep the way thunder sounds before rain.“So, you’ve chosen the path that defies both Heaven and the Nether.”Jin Mu turned.Gensuo stood before him his form flickering in and out of existence. Half his body was light half smoke the wound across his chest glowed like molten silver.“Am I dead?” Jin Mu asked.“No you’re not .” The old Immortal smiled faintly “Though Heaven tried very hard.”Jin Mu glanced down the world below was a shattered pa
Chapter 7
A ripple of black flame tore through the street, shattering stone and shrouding everything in smoke Screams echoed up the terraces as people fled, their silhouettes blurring in the mist. From the library steps, Jin Mu could see the chaos spreading houses collapsing, talismans flaring the air alive with lightning that never reached the ground.“The seal’s corruption,” Lian said, her voice trembling. “It’s consuming the city’s foundation stones.”Orin looked around wildly. “You mean the city itself is becoming unstable?”She nodded. “The Lotus wards are breaking whatever was sleeping under the Hollow is here.”Jin Mu’s gaze sharpened He could feel it now that same pulse of Death Qi, multiplied a thousandfold. It called to him like a heartbeat beneath the earth.“Then we end it,” he said.“End it?” Orin snapped. “With what, exactly?Jin Mu didn’t answer His pendant was long gone, but the storm inside him stirred silver and black light threading through his veins.Lian stepped back, alarm
Chapter 6
The gates of the City of Veils loomed high above them carved from pale stone that shimmered faintly in the sun. Silver runes pulsed across the archway like breathing light. Guards in dark-blue armor stood at attention, each carrying a halberd inlaid with charms that hummed against the air.To Jin Mu, the city felt alive Every breeze carried a trace of power cultivators passing unseen spells whispers that bent the light in the corners of his vision. Compared to Heiyan’s emptiness it was overwhelming.Orin handed over their travel scrolls to the gate captain the man glanced between them, his gaze lingering on Jin Mu’s eyes.“Your companion,” he said slowly, “he’s of no sect?”Orin smiled politely. “A farmer’s son he’s Harmless.”The captain grunted. “We’ll see.” He stamped their passes and waved them through.Inside, the city unfolded in tiers terraces stacked along the mountainside, linked by bridges of jade and rope. Temples and markets crowded each level, bright with banners, alive
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