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Chapter 12 Beauty Hides a Rotting Secret
Author: Blue Princess
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The wind bit at Jian Chen’s face as they crested the final ridge overlooking the Azure Cloud Sect. From this height, the sect looked like a sprawling, white-veined marble parasite clinging to the side of the mountain. It was beautiful, tranquil, and utterly rotting beneath its gilded surface. Jian Chen reigned in his horse, the beast’s breath blooming in the frigid air like white smoke. 

"You're going back in there? Master, that's not just a gamble. That’s a suicide pact with a sm

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