Her Fiancé Dumped Her for Crippled Roots, So She Climbed the Mountain on Ash novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Night
On the morning before the Stone Yard, Xiu put her hands on the Root Stone.
The testing elder had asked for it himself.
"Nobody on this mountain will say your sister's place was charity," he told her. "Let them see what's in you."
So the outer court came up to the Stone Yard again, and the carriers stood along its west edge.
Lian stood with them, in a clean hemp robe the head carrier had found her.
The gray had sunk back to her wrists overnight, two faint threads, darker than before.
Xiu walked out to the stone in her blue robe with her short hair sticking up at the back.
She didn't have a sword at all now.
She wiped her palms on her robe, looked over at Lian once, and laid both hands flat on the white jade.
Green light woke at the bottom of the stone.
It climbed a hand's width, where it had always died for the carriers.
Then it kept climbing.
It went up past Xiu's hands, past her head, and up the whole height of the pillar.
At the top it burst out of the jade.
The outer court made a sound.
The testing elder looked up at the top of the stone for a long moment.
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