Sealed in the Secret Realm with My Rival novel · Chapter 12 of 24
Chapter 12: The Root of the Crack
Qin Heyan left before Lu Baichuan woke.
He dressed in the grey dawn, took Hoarfrost, and climbed the pine slope alone.
The great lamp was burning faster than the days.
Twenty-six wicks were dark, and the twenty-second dawn called for twenty-one.
Five too many.
The Garden kept time perfectly in everything else.
Something in it was running out faster than the calendar.
The last big crack in the sky ran north over the ridge.
It was still the width of a road.
Qin followed it uphill through the pines, over rock and dry grass, and the air grew warmer with every step.
Near the top of the ridge he found a cave.
The crack ended there.
It ran down the sky and poured into the cave mouth, and the cave breathed.
Qin heard it before he went in.
It was a slow, deep, pulsing beat.
Boom.
Boom-boom.
Boom.
He walked into the dark with his hand on his sword.
The cave was shaped like a throat.
The walls were warm and faintly red, and they were veined with glowing lines that branched.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–6 of Sealed in the Secret Realm with My Rival are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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