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149: Questions.
The moment Kai unrolled the scroll, his eyes scanned the pages slowly, confusion painting every inch of his expression. Symbols, ancient calligraphy, strange diagrams of energy flows and spiritual nodes, it looked more like a chaotic artist’s sketchpad than anything remotely understandable.He blinked. Turned the scroll upside down.Nope. Still nonsense.Turning it sideways didn’t help either.Eventually, he looked up, brows drawn tight, and stared at Zora like she had just handed him a cursed grocery list.Zora, lounging on the couch and rubbing her stomach with all the satisfaction of someone who’d eaten their way through a feast, caught his expression and scoffed. “Tch. Village boy.”Kai didn’t even respond to the insult. “What is this?” he asked, dead serious.She sat up and grinned. “That, oh clueless one, is a top-level cultivation technique. One of the rarest. One of the most guarded. One of the most absolutely illegal-to-even-breathe-near ones.”Kai's frown deepened.Zora, cle
148: Detonation Theory
Kai returned with the food, dropped the bags on the table, and tossed one box toward Zora without a word.She caught it with a grin and opened it like it was treasure. “Mmm. You might be annoying, but you’re useful,” she said, already digging into the meat like a woman starved for a week.Kai sat across from her, arms crossed. “Talk.”Zora didn’t even look up. “Can’t. Too busy chewing.”He glared.She pointed her chopsticks at him mid-chew. “You want answers? Patience, young grasshopper.”He exhaled, long and sharp, but let her eat. Until she started speaking again, mouth still full, which instantly made him twitch.“So,” she said, between bites of ribs, “the second method… self-detonation.”Kai blinked. “What?”She nodded, still munching. “You know... boom. On purpose. Controlled suicide-bombing... but with energy cultivation.”That made him pause.Zora wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. “See, a cultivator’s body is like a compressed energy core. As they grow stronger, their
147:Bomb In The Bloodline.
Kai’s eyes lit up as Zora’s serious tone faded into one of scholarly authority. Her explanation had stirred something, something he needed. Answers. Clarity. A direction. He leaned forward, nodding eagerly.“Tell me more,” he said quickly. “Zora, don’t stop now, what else can cause this kind of energy rupture? What else could be behind those deaths?”But instead of answering, Zora leaned back with a smug smile and rubbed her stomach. “Tch. You think I run on air?” she said, yawning dramatically. “If you want a lecture, you better feed your tutor. I need energy, physical energy to break down spiritual science, okay?”Kai didn’t waste time. With a sharp sigh, he pulled out his phone and placed an order, two full-course meals, extra meat, fried dumplings, glazed ribs, noodles, and juice. A lot. Enough to feed three people. He tossed the phone aside and narrowed his eyes at her.“There. Happy now?”Zora grinned. “Now that’s the kind of obedience I like. You’re going to make a very fine si
146: Where Did You Hear That Bullshit?
The call has long ended, but the silence that followed was deafening.Kai didn’t speak. His fingers stayed clenched around the steering wheel even as the city lights blurred past them. Zora, who had put on her headphones earlier to give him some privacy, finally pulled them off. She turned toward him, noticing the stiffness in his shoulders, the shadow in his eyes.“Hey,” she said gently. “What happened?”Kai opened his mouth like he wanted to say something, but only a low mumble came out, completely inaudible. Then nothing.Zora tilted her head, brows drawn. But she didn’t push. Whatever he’d just heard had clearly shaken him, and for once, the ever-blabbering girl decided to keep quiet. She sat back in her seat, eyeing him occasionally as the car cut through the city.Kai didn’t say another word the entire ride.His mind was still stuck on the explosion. The deaths. Caleb. The thought that his bloodline was being quietly slaughtered from the inside out. He hadn’t even known these pe
145: Dead Men in the Bloodline
Kai's fingers tapped restlessly against the steering wheel as he drove through the city’s quieter back roads, his mind a storm of silence and fire but he didn’t see anything beyond the thoughts stabbing at his brain.Caleb. The riot. Lies buried years deep.He clenched his jaw, eyes darkening with each turn he made.He said he knew his mother. Said he was family. Helped him with cultivation, protected him more than once…Then why does it feel like every move he made was part of a setup?Was he just a pawn? A name to shadow?Was any of it real?Caleb stepped in like some long-lost guardian..and Kai welcomed him in.But now…Now the cracks were splintering open, and Kai didn’t know if he was uncovering the truth or stepping into someone else's trap. Zora watched the man in conflict with himself and she kept quiet despite wanting to question him but it was best to keep it shut, he doesn't want to provoke kai now.Ella’s voice broke through the silence on the call, cautious but sharp. “Ka
Chapter 144: The Past.
After a few long days of monitoring, antidotes, and endless groaning from both parties, Zora was finally cleared for discharge.Kai pushed the wheelchair with the enthusiasm of someone rolling a ticking time bomb. Zora, of course, was doing the absolute most. Waving at nurses like she was royalty, tossing dramatic goodbyes to the doctors, and even saluting a janitor.“Farewell, noble citizens of the healing citadel,” she announced. “I, Queen Zora of Stubbornland, take my leave!”Kai didn’t even flinch. “You forgot to thank the psychiatric ward.”She gasped, looking up at him. “How dare you! I was poisoned!”“Mentally or physically?”One nurse chuckled as they passed. Two elderly women whispered, and one said aloud, “They must be siblings. They even argue the same.”“I’m an only child,” Kai muttered under his breath.Zora grinned. “Aww. Does that mean I’m your first and last emotional damage?”Kai rolled her to the passenger seat of the car and unceremoniously opened the door. “In.”“Y
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