Chapter 1122: Youdu's Reckoning, a Debt Paid in Blood

The silence that had fallen over the central square of Youdu was a heavy, suffocating blanket. Every eye was fixed on the two figures at the center of the storm: the resurrected genius, Ruotian Xuanyu, and the venerated alchemist, Master Kuyue, whose mask of scholarly grace was cracking like cheap porcelain. Ruotian Xuanyu's voice, no longer weak but resonant with power and infused with the chilling frost of a deep-seated hatred, echoed through the stunned silence. "Master Kuyue," he began,...