The Poison Cultivator Married the Crippled Heir novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Altar
Hou's palm had been on the Altar for a long minute.
The black stone stayed dark under it.
"The old stone is slow," he said. "Let the heir try."
Yuhang rolled forward and laid his right hand on the Altar's edge.
Nothing happened for a breath.
Then the first of the nine pillars lit, a clean gold, from the base to its carved cap.
The second lit.
The third, the fourth, the fifth, one after another in a ring of light that sent shadows leaping across the summit.
At the ninth, the whole Altar rang like a struck bell.
Three hundred disciples came over the top step and stopped with their mouths open.
"The Altar has spoken," said the oldest Elder, and bowed from the waist. "Shen Yuhang, heir of the Green Pine Sect."
Hou's smile broke.
He put out a hand toward his son.
"A poison cultivator's trick," he said, too loud. "Her master made the Frost Thorn.
"She has fed the heir her master's filth for two months, and now his Core blazes at her touch. Ask yourselves why."
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