The Sword Spirit Chose a Nobody for His New Master novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: Gu Yunzhao's Name

The letter was written in a shaky, careful hand on thin yellow paper.

Hanjue read it standing in the middle of the Sword Yard, with the crowd drifting away around him.

Then he sat down on the nearest step, and Chuhe sat beside him and said nothing.

"The Sect Head is a hundred and four," Hanjue said at last.

"He lives in a cave on the western peak."

"He has not seen another person in nine years."

"He's alive?"

"Barely."

"He says he found out about me only this autumn, when the stone began to hum."

Hanjue turned the page.

"He says it was in his teacher's notes, and his teacher's teacher's."

"A line, only a line."

"That the apprentice had a mother."

Chuhe's throat tightened.

"She lived in a village called Baimai, east of here, past two ridges."

"When he was taken, she was given a stipend and a stone, and the Hall told her he had died of a fever."

"They lied to her."

"Yes."

Hanjue's voice was steady.

"The Sect Head says the stone still stands."

"The village has kept it for three hundred years."

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