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Far from the Holy Tree Temple, in a sleepy market town, Bai Lingshui was hurrying back with a wax-paper bundle. Inside the bundle was half a pound of beef for Li Yuan’s supper. She felt eyes on her, drifted closer to an alley, and brushed shoulders with a stranger who slipped her a note.
She opened it later: nothing but chaotic stripes. Her pupils tightened. That mess was the top level White Lotus Cult cipher reserved for emergency orders to elders. The single line read—
“Qing Hancheng is one of us.”
Her brow furrowed; she crushed the paper to dust.
˙·٠✧🐗➶➴🏹✧٠·˙
Time slipped by.
Jing Baikou never sent out the refusal. Refusing meant admitting the temple master had seen the challenge.
Saying nothing let them claim he’d never looked at it, softening the blow to the Holy Tree Temple’s prestige.
Rumors were fed instead.
“The temple master is in seclusion.” “An outer gate lackey lost the letter.” “Since when may a mountain nobody challenge the temple master?” …
Bai Lingshui didn’t dig deeper after learning the revelation.
Qing Hancheng might belong to the Lotus Cult, but the...
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