2026-01-04 20:22:08POV: Aren
The wall did not explode.
It peeled open.
Stone split with a long, grinding sigh, as if the mountain itself had grown tired of holding its breath. Aren barely had time to recoil before the cracked surface gave way entirely. The ground beneath his feet vanished, and he fell.
This time, there was no chain to stop him.
Air rushed past his ears as darkness swallowed him whole. Aren twisted instinctively, curling his body to protect his head. He struck something hard, then slid, then struck again. Pain bloomed across his shoulder and ribs, sharp enough to steal his breath.
Then the fall ended.
Aren lay spraw
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Chapter 10 — The Vein Beneath the Sect
POV: ArenThe wall did not explode.It peeled open.Stone split with a long, grinding sigh, as if the mountain itself had grown tired of holding its breath. Aren barely had time to recoil before the cracked surface gave way entirely. The ground beneath his feet vanished, and he fell.This time, there was no chain to stop him.Air rushed past his ears as darkness swallowed him whole. Aren twisted instinctively, curling his body to protect his head. He struck something hard, then slid, then struck again. Pain bloomed across his shoulder and ribs, sharp enough to steal his breath.Then the fall ended.Aren lay spraw
Chapter 9 — Buried Alive
POV: ArenThey did not execute him again.That, more than anything, told Aren how frightened they were.The punishment pit lay beneath the eastern wing of the Azure Pact, carved deep into bedrock where light did not reach, and formations rarely failed. It was not a cell. Cells implied return. The pit was where inconvenient things were placed until time finished what the sect did not wish to dirty its hands completing.Aren felt the mouth of it before he saw it. A hollow absence in the air, like the world had learned to breathe around a wound.They marched him there in silence.No accusations. No pronouncements. Just the scrape of boots, the hum of suppres
Chapter 8 — Something Answered Him
POV: ArenThey did not cheer.They did not scream.The crowd recoiled as one, a living thing shrinking back from the shattered execution platform. Dust hung in the air, drifting slowly through the pale morning light. Broken runes flickered and died at Aren’s feet, the remnants of formations that had never failed before today.Aren stood among the ruins, chest heaving, palms trembling where they had pressed against cracked stone. The chains lay in fragments around him, dull and lifeless. He was alive.That truth felt unreal.Elder Qian was the first to move. He raised his staff sharply, the sound cracking through the plaza like a command lash. “C
Chapter 7 — The Bond That Was Never Intended
POV: ArenThe silence did not last.It never did, not when systems built on control were forced to confront refusal.A sharp cry tore through the outer ring of disciples, breaking the stunned stillness that followed the halted blade. Aren’s eyes flicked sideways just in time to see a young woman stumble forward from the crowd. She wore the pale grey robes of an auxiliary cultivator, one of the ritual support personnel assigned to maintain the execution array’s stability.She collapsed hard onto the stone.The formations flared in response.Aren felt it instantly. The suppression arrays beneath his feet surged, panicking, overcorrecting as if t
Chapter 6 — Execution Requires Silence
POV: ArenDawn arrived without colour.The sky above the Azure Pact was a thin, washed grey, as if even the heavens had decided not to bear witness. The execution platform rose at the centre of the outer plaza, a circular slab of black stone etched with suppression arrays so old they had been carved directly into the mountain’s spine. Frost clung to its edges. Not from cold, but from restraint.Aren was chained at its centre.The chains were different from any he had worn before. Heavy. Absolute. Each link was engraved with severance runes designed to isolate a cultivator from every source of strength—meridians, core, intent. They did not hurt. They erased.As the final clasp locked ar
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