Chapter 43
Author: Maylogic
last update2026-10-21 23:56:23

Ten thousand citizens stood in breathless awe across the stone plaza of the Dragon Gate under the morning sun. Song Lin sat slumped in his silk chair, staring with hollow eyes at the white ash of his burned corpse fungus drifting across the table.

Grand Minister Bao raised his iron staff, sixty palace spearmen marching forward in lockstep with leveled weapons. "Seize this deceitful criminal!" Bao roared with fury. "Planting forbidden corpse poison on an imperial altar is high treason punishable
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