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Chapter 125 (Our fate at the threshold) Chen’s POV
“Do not open the door.”The deep voice rolled through the room like distant thunder; a gravelly baritone of absolute, crushing authority that vibrated through the floorboardsBeneath my hands, Wei was as rigid as a corpse in rigor mortis. The blood from his nose and ears were already beginning to congeal, but the unnatural stiffness of his muscles made it almost impossible to tell if he was still human. Yan Hu and I remained perfectly still, trapped in the suffocating silence that followed Wei’s voice. The layered, chaotic chanting from moments before had vanished, leaving only the erratic, wet rasp of Han Ruo’s breathing.The candle flames steadied. Even the warped shadows on the walls seemed to freeze in place.Then, the shadows shifted.My eyes darted to the sliver of space beneath the heavy wooden door. The dim light from the moon was suddenly blotted out. A silhouette. Not pacing, just standing there, forcing an impenetrable mass of darkness to press against our concealment arra
Chapter 124 (Bleeding Mind) Chen’s POV
Han Ruo’s cracked whisper, "Take him out of here, Sovereign” had barely faded into the stagnant air before the nightmare truly began.Long Wei’s body convulsed. It wasn't a tremble; it was a violent, spine-arching jerk that snapped his head back against the floorboards with a sickening thud."Wei!" I lunged, throwing my weight over his chest to pin him down. His body felt horrifyingly hot beneath my palms, like he was in hell… or maybe he was. A thick, dark line of blood slipped from his left nostril. Then, a slow crimson tear leaked from the corner of his tightly shut eye. As I grabbed his convulsing shoulders, a fresh trail spilled from his ear, pooling into the dust.He didn't wake, but the soft mumbling changed.“...Shen... jian... wu... xing...” His voice trembled violently. Then it deepened.It grew louder. The raspy whisper ripped its way up his throat, tearing past his vocal cord until it was a raw, desperate sound. Then, another voice overlapped his. The sound coming from
Chapter 123 (A voice through the fracture) Chen’s POV
The palace let me leave too easily. They dismissed me with a casual order to report back to my post at dawn.I was set free with no interrogation, not even a passing glance from Wei Jue, that was the strangest thing I had encountered. Why did he let me go?Wei Jue despised me. My sudden disappearance right before the ritual chamber exploded, combined with my blood trail was a silver platter for him to feast on. He should have strung me up in the dungeons just on the suspicion alone. To release me without probing, to let a random scapegoat take the fall so neatly… That wasn't just unusual, I knew beneath that act was a trap.He was giving me enough rope to hang myself. The thought made my skin crawl. The cool evening air did nothing to settle the suffocating heat trapped in my lungs. I kept my gait steady, simulating the painful limp of a wounded guard, but internally, every instinct I possessed was screaming.I didn't head straight for home. I took a twisted route through the lowe
Chapter 122 (A convenient culprit) Chen POV
The cold steel of the commander’s blade pressed flush against my throat. A hair's breadth deeper, and it would draw blood.He gave a nod and the imperial guards spread through the safehouse without restraint, kicking aside broken stools and tearing through shelves already half-rotten from neglect. Their armored footsteps shook the tiny room, each heavy clang making my pulse tighten for an entirely different reason.My edge of my vision stayed locked on the darkest corner of the room. That was where Long Wei and Han Ruo were breathing beneath the cloaking array. One wrong movement or shift in spiritual perception. And all of us were dead."Convenient timing," the commander sneered, stepping closer so his heavy boots dug into the floorboards near my hip. "Witnesses saw you disappear right before the ritual grounds blew to pieces, Shen Luo. And now we find you here, hiding like a mouse in the filth."I didn't cower. I didn't raise or raise my voice; that would signify fear. Instead, I l
Chapter 121 (Hunted predator) Chen’s POV
The silence became our comfort. I stood near the barred window, my fingers tracing the glowing edge of the warding seal Yan Hu and I had carved into the wooden frame. The spiritual barrier was holding, a thin, shimmering dome of energy separating our desolate hideout from the wasteland outside. But it didn't feel like enough.The protective formation beneath us flickered softly. Golden lines crawled across the wooden floorboards before sinking back into silence.For the last two hours, both of us had felt it. It felt closer to instinct. Like an animal sniffing through snow for buried flesh."Do you feel that?" I murmured, not looking back.Yan Hu was kneeling on the floorboards beside the two unmoving bodies. "I feel it," he grunted, his voice tight with strain. There was something out there sensing us out. Something that had sent all its senses out to fish us.A heavy, suffocating pressure pressed against the edge of our wards. It felt like a massive, invisible beast dragging its s
Chapter 120 (He saw me too) Long Wei’s POV
The courtyard violently ripped apart.I crashed into mud and the next thing I saw was chaos. The smell of burning flesh and hot iron hit me so hard I gagged.Siege towers burned like massive torches against a black sky. Spiritual energy tore through the clouds in streaks of violent crimson and gold, shattering mountains in the distance. The ground shook under the stampede of thousands of screaming men.This memory was dense, heavy and real. Through the smoke and flying arrows, I saw him; General Han Ruo. He was a demon of war, his heavy armor shattered and slick with gore. His sword carved through enemy ranks in desperate, sweeping arcs. One side of his face was a ruined mess of blood from a fresh, jagged scar, but he didn't retreat. He stood at the front, taking the brunt of the assault, shielding the younger soldiers, his voice shattered through the atmosphere boosting his soldiers morale as they leapt forward in full force. He wasn't the calm Taishi I saw. He was a protector, bl
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