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Nine Rings C42

by MarineTL — Chapter 42: Waiting I dragged him onto one of those old, rickety buses. The two of us bounced all the way back. Infrastructure wasn’t exactly great back then—the bus was slow to begin with, and the driver even detoured to a gas station to refuel. It took over half an hour just to get to the county town. Luckily, just before we got off, I called one of the clerks at Fourth Brother’s shop. They sent a young guy to pick us up in a minivan. He looked pretty young, went by the name Xiao Wu, with clear,…
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Nine Rings C74

by MarineTL — Chapter 74: Breaking Free No one knows when this iron chain bridge was built. Every step made it tremble violently. I gripped the chains on either side, moving with extreme caution, afraid that even the slightest extra movement might snap the fragile links and send the whole thing collapsing. As I held onto the chains and walked forward, I called out Fourth Brother’s name loudly. But most of my shouts echoed into silence. The more silence I got, the slower I moved. Ten minutes later, I found myself…
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Nine Rings C106

by MarineTL — Chapter 106: Blowing up the Buddha The Soul-Suppressing Pagoda. I understood it as a stone tower meant for suppressing and performing the Transcendence Ritual for the souls of the dead. Lu A'yao told me that the incantations chiseled into the pagoda were actually the text of the Diamond Sutra. Logically, the chanting I heard was likely meant for lonely spirits. "What do you mean? Why can't any of you hear it, but I can?" I protested. I wondered if the Bodhisattva thought my soul was impure and wanted…
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Nine Rings C138

by MarineTL — Chapter 138: 18 North Bookstore Street Bookstore Street is a relatively bustling commercial district in Kaifeng's old city. I'm not someone who likes going out; in modern terms, I'm a bit of a homebody. I prefer staying in my room tinkering with things. Coming to Kaifeng was purely for school, and I don't like wandering around aimlessly. So, I've never been to this North Bookstore Street on the address and don't know anything about it. I had no classes in the afternoon, so I put on my glasses and…
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Nine Rings C170

by MarineTL — Chapter 170: Parting Ways I was completely baffled by his words. I looked up at the column-head bracket sets in the Spirit Path. These architectural elements weren't commonly used in tomb passages; they were more typical of palaces. The designer had likely incorporated them into the Spirit Path to provide a robust structural barrier, offering significant support. However, I soon realized that I had never seen this particular style of bracket set before. Every joint and connection was unusual, and the…
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Nine Rings C202

by MarineTL — Chapter 202: The Break The three of us were the last to arrive in the cabin. A table sat in the center with a nautical chart spread across it, surrounded by a crowd of workers. I took a quick scan; aside from the crew steering the ship, almost everyone was there. My mother had likely just finished explaining the sailing route. She looked up as she saw us coming down. In an instant, every gaze in the cabin shifted toward us. I had seen this kind of formation before; it never signaled anything…
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Nine Rings C234

by MarineTL — Chapter 234: Blasting the Stone The camp was already in a state of total chaos. We sprinted along the shortest path possible, passing various workers from different families running back and forth along the way. Without exception, none of them had the presence of mind to pay us any attention. I ran all the way to the stone gate. The interior was shrouded in swirling sand and dust kicked up from the ground, making it impossible to see what was happening inside. I had run so fast that I was nearly out…
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Nine Rings C21

by MarineTL — Chapter 21: Breaking the Deadlock Tian Yuqing couldn’t determine our exact location, but he kept casting divinations again and again to confirm the direction of the pit wall. We leaned against it to rest. Both teams had been wandering around the bottom of the pit for six hours straight, and the moment we sat down, exhaustion hit us like a wave. Withered roots of plants dangled from the pit walls, their tendrils poking out of the soil. The temperature was steadily dropping, and our jackets weren’t…
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