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CHAPTER 19: Cracks in an Ordinary Life
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Kai could not sleep.

Every time he closed his eyes, he saw it again. The colossal silhouette of Mother Earth standing above the burning cultivator civilization, the countless beams of light descending from the heavens on endless repeat inside his skull, followed always by the expression on the Azure Sword Saint’s face in that final moment. It was not fear. It was regret.

Kai sat on the edge of his bed, staring out the apartment window at a city that had absolutely no idea how close it had o
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