Chapter 16 · for subscribers
Eleven days ago a butcher walked up seven gates that opened themselves for him and found the throne room empty — the Gate Master had gone down the far side of his own mountain while the font was still saying the blade's name. So Gu Tie did the only thing he had ever been good at. He went down into the hollow heart, cut the nine conduits, carried Lin Su out, and left nine hundred years of immortals with nothing to drink.
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