2026-10-22 00:01:36Elijah lowered his gaze to Mother. Some colour was returning to her face, and her chest had begun to rise and fall in faint, steady breaths.
“Mr. Elijah, she’s getting better,” Iris said with a sniff.“Looks like it.” He turned to Iris, who grew uneasy under his questioning look.“Mr. Elijah… is there something you need?”Elijah checked that none of the other Zenith women were close enough to hear, then leaned nearer.His voice was so low that Iri
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Elijah Langston fought through the surface current with everything he had left, forcing himself towards the only patch of land visible across the endless stretch of water. It was hardly more than a small island, and the distance was still considerable, but it was the only solid ground he could see.His arms had become heavy, and most of his spiritual energy was gone. He had spent nearly everything keeping Mother alive long enough for the treatment to take effect, then used what remained to force his way back to the surface instead of being buried somewhere in the depths of the Tempest Ocean. There was very little left inside him now except the sheer will to survive.Elijah kept pushing until a firm grip closed on the back of his collar. One second he was still fighting through the water, and the next his entire body was hauled out by a force he had no strength to resist.His sight blurred with the sudden movement. When it cleared again,
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Elijah Langston moved through the fleeing practitioners like a streak of light, carrying Mother securely in his arms. Those who had started running before him fell farther behind with every step, while the towering walls of ocean water surrounding Galecrest closed in even faster.The first wall reached the Zenith women. None of them had time to brace properly as the enormous body of water folded over the island with unimaginable weight. It swallowed the women and everyone around them in a chaotic rush, erasing their figures from sight almost instantly.The force of the collapse sent the water rolling deeper across Galecrest along the path Elijah had taken, while the other walls advanced from the island’s remaining sides.Practitioners who had believed themselves fast enough to escape soon discovered otherwise. Those at the rear disappeared first as the turbulence overtook them and dragged them into the water. The faster ones were losing
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Elijah lowered his gaze to Mother. Some colour was returning to her face, and her chest had begun to rise and fall in faint, steady breaths.“Mr. Elijah, she’s getting better,” Iris said with a sniff.“Looks like it.” He turned to Iris, who grew uneasy under his questioning look.“Mr. Elijah… is there something you need?”Elijah checked that none of the other Zenith women were close enough to hear, then leaned nearer. His voice was so low that Iris could barely hear the question. “If Mother is really your biological mother, didn’t she break one of the sacred laws of the Zenith Sisterhood?”Iris went still and her face lost colour. Elijah had believed her when she spoke of being born into the Sisterhood. There had been no sign to doubt her sincerity. But now, he could no longer assume that what Iris believed and what was true were always the same thing.“Run! Run!” A young man came sprinting from the direc
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Elijah said nothing and did not even blink, frozen in his squatting position beside Mother. Iris studied him closely. “Mr. Elijah, you can’t possibly think that’s true, right? If someone really helped Mother create the Zenith Sisterhood, she would never hide that person. Mother is kind, and she always repays people for their kindness.”“You seem very sure those rumours couldn’t be true,” Elijah said calmly, careful not to reveal why the name had affected him.“Hmph! Of course I’m sure.” Iris sounded almost defensive. “It was those old elders Mother allowed into the Zenith Sisterhood before we even had senior sisters. They had already been part of Zenith for years before some of us were born, but everyone could see what they were like. They were always trying to bend Mother’s rules or find ways around them.“They were the ones spreading all that nonsense for reasons only they understood, and none of it ever affected the Sisterhood anyway. Eventual
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A few seconds passed without any response from Mother. Lexi could no longer hold herself back and stomped forward. “What did you do to her? Didn’t you act like you knew what you were doing?”Elijah watched the two golden needles embedded in Mother’s body without answering.“You, answer!” Sade cursed at him.He did not move, but the Heaven-Piercing Needle at Mother’s Yintang point sank a little deeper on its own and tilted gently to the left.“What does that mean?” Rowan asked.Elijah ignored her and raised his head to Iris, who was trembling beside Mother with tears in her eyes.“The remaining needles. I need them.”Iris reached into the side compartment of her clothing and pulled out a neatly folded square of cloth. She opened it beside Mother, revealing dozens of silver acupuncture needles arranged inside.Elijah took them all in one hand, divided them between his palms and leaned closer to Moth
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Mother finally turned away from the entrance of the basin and looked towards Elijah, who still lay motionless on the ground.“Elijah, are you alright…?”Her voice was weak, but the fear and concern in it were unmistakable.She tried to reach him, only to find her vision growing hazy after a single step. The basin seemed to spin around her, and when she forced herself forward again, pain struck through her lungs.“Cough! Cough!”Mother collapsed to the ground, coughing up blood under her veil. The black blood had grown thick and viscous, while her face rapidly lost what little colour it had left.“Mother!” The Zenith women rushed out from among the crowd and surrounded her. Rowan reached her first and turned her over while Iris dropped beside them to check her pulse.Mother’s hand slipped weakly from Rowan’s grasp.“What’s happening to Mother?” Lexi asked in panic. “Iris, check quickly!”Iris held Mother’s fingers, tears gathering in her eyes. “It’s the pill. It suppressed Mother’s con
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