Chapter 18 - The Night Market Massacre
We needed supplies before returning to Iron Lotus.
The night market had everything: pills, talismans, illegal techniques, fake illegal techniques, and noodles powerful enough to count as poison.
Then the assassins returned.
Not for me.
For Mira.
They wore white masks painted with a golden eye.
Mira stopped breathing when she saw them.
"Golden Court."
"Friends?"
"Family."
Worse.
The leader bowed.
"Lady Mira. Your father requests your return."
"He put me in a cage."
"For your protection."
"I hate when people say that."
The market became a battlefield.
Golden Court cultivators were Qi Gathering realm—far above us.
We should have died.
Instead Pebble ate one man's protective talisman.
Sable poisoned another.
Jace stole a spear.
I used Meridian Bite on a formation pillar and collapsed half the street ward.
Heaven's Debt hit twenty-nine.
The sky growled.
Again.
When the Court retreated, Mira was bleeding from her side.
Their leader left one message.
"Your seal is failing. When it breaks, everyone near you dies."
I looked at Mira.
"What seal?"
She closed her eyes.
Silver light spread beneath her skin.
The system finally identified her suppressed root.
[Spirit Root: VOID LOTUS]
[Rank: Calamity]
A second line appeared.
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[Predicted event: Mira Sen destroys Blackwater City in 31 hours.]
