105: The Rise

The careful preceding small private *rise* took, by the careful preceding small private hour of the cell-boundary corridor's preceding small private opened pattern, *three hours*.

By the careful preceding small private first hour, Su Yan, Lin Wanyue, Cang Xueyi, King Cang Yuan, Master Qing, Senior Elder Mu Bingyu, Wu Tianhe, and King Han Yifeng — *the careful preceding small private seven anchor cultivators* — had — by the careful preceding small private hour of one preceding standing rehearsed protocol — *passed* through their preceding standing cell-boundary points into the Lower Immortal Realm.

By the careful preceding small private second hour, the careful preceding small private alliance's preceding small private *forty-five trained operatives* and the careful preceding small private *Voiceless Inheritance's preceding small private senior leadership* — including Aluan, Cousin Su Lin, Cousin Su Wenfu, Hua Lin, Master Mu, Linglong, the eight Aleph-line members of the kingdom of Beicang's preceding standing recovery, and Lin Wanyue's preceding small private husband Su Hong (who had, by Lin Wanyue's preceding preference, attended the rise as her preceding small private formal partner-in-the-rise) — *passed through* in coordinated waves.

By the careful preceding small private third hour, the careful preceding small private full *Voiceless Inheritance's preceding standing membership of three hundred*, by the careful preceding small private hour of the seven-anchor corridor's preceding standing capacity, had *all crossed*.

By the careful preceding small private hour of the third hour's close, the careful preceding small private *seven cell-boundary points* — by the careful preceding small private hour of Lin Wanyue's preceding small private final calibration — *closed*.

The mortal-tier kingdoms of Beicang, Eastern Yan, the Northern Iron Cult, the Frost Lotus Sect's central temple, the Western Verdant Alliance, and the Southern Mistspring continued, by the careful preceding small private hour of the closing, *operating* under their preceding standing succession arrangements (Crown Prince Cang Hao had — by the careful preceding small private hour of three years of preceding small private quiet preceding small private private rehabilitation under Su Yan's preceding small private quiet preceding teaching — accepted the careful preceding small private throne of Beicang in his preceding small private brother-in-law's preceding small private absence; the careful preceding small private new King of Eastern Yan's preceding small private own arranged successor — a careful preceding small private younger half-brother named Han Lifeng — had, by the careful preceding small private hour of one further coronation, taken the careful preceding small private throne of Eastern Yan).

The careful preceding small private mortal-tier alliance — by the careful preceding small private hour of the seven-anchor corridor's preceding small private close — *remained* secure, with the careful preceding small private *Voiceless Inheritance's preceding small private mortal-tier liaison branch* of *thirty-eight members* (chosen by Cousin Su Lin's preceding standing arrangement to *remain* in the mortal tier as the careful preceding small private alliance's preceding small private long-term preceding small private private liaison) maintaining the careful preceding small private courier line between the careful preceding small private mortal tier and the careful preceding small private Lower Immortal Realm by the careful preceding small private hour of the corridor's preceding standing reopening protocol.

By the careful preceding small private hour of the third hour's close, the careful preceding small private *Aleph-line and the careful preceding small private alliance* — three hundred members minus the careful preceding small private thirty-eight liaison stay-behinds — *stood* in the careful preceding small private *Lower Immortal Realm's preceding small private receiving region*.

The receiving region was — by Lin Wanyue's preceding read of the careful preceding small private substrate-sight at the careful preceding small private hour of arrival — a careful preceding small private *small upland plateau*, perhaps three li wide, in the careful preceding small private mid-altitude range of a careful preceding small private *high mountain* the cellar's preceding small private history books had identified as *Mount Verdant Year* — *the careful preceding small private mountain Lin Wanyue's preceding small private predecessor in the careful preceding small private title had named, thirty thousand years before, in the careful preceding small private hour of her preceding small private own preceding-time rise's preceding small private receiving region*.

The mountain — by Lin Wanyue's preceding read — was *unguarded*.

The Wardens — by every careful preceding small private bookkeeping — had not, in the careful preceding small private hour of thirty thousand years, *re-garrisoned* the mountain. The careful preceding small private failed Aeon Rebellion had — by the careful preceding small private hour of the Wardens' preceding small private subsequent confidence — calibrated the careful preceding small private mountain as *no longer a credible rise point*.

The careful preceding small private mountain was, by the careful preceding small private hour of the alliance's preceding small private arrival, *theirs*.

By the careful preceding small private hour of the third hour's close, the careful preceding small private *Lower Immortal Realm* had — by every careful preceding small private bookkeeping — *received its preceding small private first careful preceding small private successful Aleph-line rise* in the careful preceding small private hour of thirty thousand years.

The careful preceding small private *Wardens above the Lower Immortal Realm* would, by Lin Wanyue's preceding read, *register* the rise within the careful preceding small private hour of the next several days.

The careful preceding small private response, by Lin Wanyue's preceding read, would, by every careful preceding small private bookkeeping, *take time*.

By the careful preceding small private hour of the time, the careful preceding small private *Aleph-line and the alliance* — by the careful preceding small private hour of the careful preceding small private receiving region's preceding standing presence — would, by every careful preceding small private bookkeeping of the cellar's preceding small private history books, *consolidate* the careful preceding small private *Lower Immortal Realm's preceding small private first preceding-time formal Aleph-line foothold* in the careful preceding small private hour of thirty thousand years.

The careful preceding small private *first preceding-time formal foothold* — by the careful preceding small private hour of one rise's preceding small private close — *secured*.

In Su Yan's chest, the ember pulsed — slow, considered, *gentle*, *grave*, and *gentle* twice more — and the dry voice, in the careful preceding small private morning of *Mount Verdant Year* of the *Lower Immortal Realm*, said: *Honored. By every careful preceding small private bookkeeping. The careful preceding small private rise has, by the careful preceding small private hour of one preceding standing alliance, succeeded.*

Su Yan inclined his head, in the careful preceding small private mid-altitude air of the careful preceding small private mountain plateau, in the direction of the ember.

Lin Wanyue, beside him, inclined her head — small, formal — to the careful preceding small private silver-gold sky of the Lower Immortal Realm.

"Yan-er."

"Mother."

"By my own preceding preference, the careful preceding small private hour of the careful preceding small private *first arc* — *the careful preceding small private hour of the careful preceding small private rise from the mortal tier* — has, by the careful preceding small private hour of one rise's preceding small private close, *closed*."

"Mother. Yes."

"By my own preceding preference, the careful preceding small private hour of the careful preceding small private *second arc* — *the careful preceding small private hour of the careful preceding small private consolidation of the Lower Immortal Realm's preceding small private first preceding-time formal Aleph-line foothold* — *opens*, by the careful preceding small private precise unhurried preceding hour of one further breath, *now*."

The careful preceding small private *first arc* — by the careful preceding small private hour of one alliance's preceding small private successful preceding small private rise to the Lower Immortal Realm — *closed*.

The careful preceding small private *second arc* — by the careful preceding small private hour of one Lower Immortal Realm's preceding small private receiving region's preceding standing presence — *began*.