Her Fiancé Dumped Her for Crippled Roots, So She Climbed the Mountain on Ash novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: Sovereign

At seven, Lian stopped trying to pull.

She had been hauling on the threads, with her arms.

That wasn't how a carrier took the steepest flight.

On the steepest flight you leaned back and let your own weight do it.

And she knew how to make her weight heavy.

She had done it once on the Root Stone, in front of the whole sect.

She took every bit of ash in her body and pushed it down, away from her arms and chest, into the pit of her stomach.

The three hooked threads went down with it.

The Sect Master's ash came after them.

It came the way a full bucket comes off the edge of a terrace once it starts to tip.

It came as a trickle first, then a pour, and then all at once.

A hundred and twenty years of ash came down the threads into Lian's body.

Across the yard, Nie Hanyue was walking toward her with her gray hand raised to finish it.

She didn't feel any of it leave her.

The burn in Lian was beyond anything she had a word for.

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