Her Fiancé Dumped Her for Crippled Roots, So She Climbed the Mountain on Ash novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Verdict
The Elders' Hall had nine carved chairs at one long black table.
Eight of them were filled.
The ninth had stood empty since its elder died in the spring.
By sect law, any Soul on the mountain held a seat and a vote in this hall, and there was no one to fill it.
The Sect Master sat at the head of the table in her white gloves, with the Discipline Elder at her right hand.
The testing elder sat near the far end, looking at his own folded hands.
Inner disciples in white lined the walls three deep.
Lian stood alone on the bare floor in front of the table with the chains on her wrists.
"The charges are two," the Discipline Elder said.
"Demonic cultivation, which five sects saw smoking off her on the Cloud Stage."
"And the poisoning of the first disciple of Jade Spring with her ash."
"Do you deny drinking it?"
"No," Lian said.
A murmur went along the walls.
"I drank it the first night, because the only other choice was leaving my sister alone on this mountain."
"I drank it every night after. I never put any of it into him."
"We'll hear him," said the Discipline Elder. "Guan Shuo."
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