99: The Decoded Pages

The careful preceding small private return through the City of the Voiceless's preceding small private fourth cell, by the careful preceding small private hour of Cousin Su Wenfu's preceding small private southern logistics line, took *six days*.

The careful preceding small private extraction party arrived at the eastern wing of the eighth district of Cloud Sky City at the second hour past dusk on the careful preceding small private sixth evening.

The household, by Cousin Su Lin's preceding standing arrangement, *did not register* the arrival.

Wen Bingyu, Lao Hou, and Yu Mei — by Cousin Su Lin's preceding small private private placement — were quietly settled into the careful preceding small private *southern logistics network's preceding small private secondary safe-house* at the village of Mei-cun, where they would, by the careful preceding small private hour of approximately three months, *transition* into new identities Cousin Su Lin had — by her preceding preference — preceding-time prepared.

The seventeen volumes were, by Su Yan's preceding preference, *carried into his mother's writing room* and laid on the careful preceding small private writing-table at the careful preceding small private hour of the morning after the return.

Lin Wanyue, by her preceding preference, opened the *first* of the seventeen volumes.

The careful preceding small private decoding of the eleven thousand four hundred Aleph-encoded pages took, by the careful preceding small private hour of three months of preceding small private inside-night sessions on the foundation platform with Su Yan and Linglong as her preceding small private decoding partners, *the careful preceding small private hour of forty inside-days per volume on average*, with the careful preceding small private hour of the careful preceding small private final volume taking — by Lin Wanyue's preceding small private private preference — *one full month* on its own.

By the careful preceding small private close of the third month, the careful preceding small private decoding was *complete*.

The careful preceding small private decoded contents — by Lin Wanyue's preceding small private private preceding small private organization across the careful preceding small private hour of three months — were *organized into seven careful preceding small private private categories*:

*Category one* — *the Hollow Veil's preceding small private full chain of command above Madam Hollow*, including the careful preceding small private *seven Wardens above the Veil's regional commanders*, by name and by current location and by careful preceding small private operating habits. Eight hundred pages.

*Category two* — *the Veil's preceding small private operations across the eastern continent's central plain*, including every careful preceding small private *facility location*, every careful preceding small private *garrison strength*, every careful preceding small private *operational schedule*, and every careful preceding small private *current preceding small private active hunt*. One thousand four hundred pages.

*Category three* — *the careful preceding small private full preceding small private known list of preceding-time preceding small private surviving Aleph-line members across the careful preceding small private cosmos's preceding small private mortal tier*, by name and by current location and by careful preceding small private current preceding small private status. Two thousand pages. *Approximately ninety members across the careful preceding small private mortal tier's preceding small private various careful preceding small private continents.*

*Category four* — *the careful preceding small private substrate-mathematics of the upper tiers' preceding small private cell-boundaries*, including the careful preceding small private *first preceding small private outline of the careful preceding small private substrate-anchor pair calibrations that would, by the careful preceding small private hour of one Aleph-line cultivator's preceding small private rise to Sovereign Apex, *open*the careful preceding small private *teleport corridors* between the mortal tier and the Lower Immortal Realm*. Three thousand pages.

*Category five* — *the careful preceding small private records of the careful preceding small private Aeon Rebellion of thirty thousand years ago*, including the careful preceding small private *full preceding small private retrospective analysis of the careful preceding small private failures of Aeon's preceding small private predecessors* and the careful preceding small private *operational lessons* the Aleph-line had preceding-time accumulated across the careful preceding small private hour of thirty thousand years of preceding small private patient careful preceding small private private observation. Two thousand pages.

*Category six* — *the careful preceding small private private preceding small private preparations Lin Wanyue had been preceding-time conducting across her preceding small private nine-year custody for the careful preceding small private hour of her preceding small private son's preceding small private rise*, including her preceding small private private design for *the careful preceding small private substrate-anchor pair's preceding small private second-tier configuration* (which Master Qing had, by his preceding preference, taught Su Yan in parallel), her careful preceding small private private design for the careful preceding small private *substrate-suppression neutralization device* (which she had, by her own preceding preference, forged), and her careful preceding small private private design for the careful preceding small private *Lower Immortal Realm cell-boundary's preceding small private opening protocol* (which would, by the careful preceding small private hour of approximately ten years from the careful preceding small private decoding's preceding small private close, *open* the careful preceding small private corridor between the kingdom of Beicang and the Lower Immortal Realm). One thousand four hundred pages.

*Category seven* — *the careful preceding small private private letters Lin Wanyue had written to her son and her husband across the careful preceding small private hour of nine years and three months*, organized chronologically. Eight hundred pages.

By the careful preceding small private close of the third month, by the careful preceding small private hour of one decoding's preceding small private completion, the *Voiceless Inheritance* had — by every careful preceding small private bookkeeping — *the careful preceding small private most operationally valuable preceding small private intelligence the careful preceding small private mortal tier's preceding small private Aleph-line had assembled in the careful preceding small private hour of the past thirty thousand years*.

The careful preceding small private *quiet decade's preceding small private operational foundation* was, by every careful preceding small private bookkeeping, *complete*.

The careful preceding small private *next nine years* — by Lin Wanyue's preceding read — would, by the careful preceding small private hour of the decoded pages' preceding small private operational deployment, conduct the careful preceding small private *recovery of the careful preceding small private surviving ninety members of the Aleph-line across the mortal tier's preceding small private various continents*, the careful preceding small private *consolidation of the careful preceding small private alliance with the kingdoms of Eastern Yan, Northern Iron, Western Verdant, Southern Mistspring, and the Frost Lotus Sect*, the careful preceding small private *coronation of Han Yifeng as the King of Eastern Yan*, the careful preceding small private *coronation of Su Yan as the King of Beicang*, the careful preceding small private *forging of the careful preceding small private Lower Immortal Realm cell-boundary's preceding small private opening protocol*, and — by the careful preceding small private hour of approximately ten years from the careful preceding small private wedding — the careful preceding small private *first preceding small private formal preceding small private rise of the careful preceding small private Aleph-line to the Lower Immortal Realm*.

By every careful preceding small private bookkeeping of the careful preceding small private cellar's preceding small private history books, the careful preceding small private rise — *if conducted with the alliance, with the recovered Aleph-line, and with Lin Wanyue's preceding small private private preparations fully deployed* — would, by Lin Wanyue's preceding read, *succeed*.

The careful preceding small private *Wardens above the Lower Immortal Realm* would, by the careful preceding small private hour of the rise, *register* the Aleph-line's preceding small private rise.

The careful preceding small private Wardens would *respond*.

The careful preceding small private response — by the careful preceding small private hour of every careful preceding small private bookkeeping — would, by the careful preceding small private hour of every careful preceding small private historical record, *attempt* to suppress the careful preceding small private rise by the careful preceding small private hour of one new careful preceding small private *culling*, in the small careful preceding small private precise unhurried preceding pattern of the careful preceding small private culling that had — thirty thousand years ago — *failed* the careful preceding small private Aeon Rebellion.

The careful preceding small private new culling — by Lin Wanyue's preceding read — would, by the careful preceding small private hour of one alliance's preceding small private full coordinated preparation, *fail also*.

The careful preceding small private Aleph-line would, by every careful preceding small private bookkeeping of the past nine years' preceding small private private preparation, *rise*.

The careful preceding small private cellar's preceding small private history books — by every careful preceding small private bookkeeping — would, by the careful preceding small private hour of approximately ten years from the careful preceding small private wedding's close, *receive* their careful preceding small private next major chapter.

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 silver-gold light of the foundation platform on the careful preceding small private morning of the third month's close, said: *The careful preceding small private hour has, by every careful preceding small private bookkeeping, arrived. The careful preceding small private decade ahead will, by the careful preceding small private hour of one Aleph-line's preceding small private rise, change the careful preceding small private cosmos.*

Su Yan inclined his head, in the careful preceding small private silver-gold light, in the direction of the ember.

The careful preceding small private *quiet decade* — by the careful preceding small private hour of one decoding's preceding small private close — *had its careful preceding small private private operational foundation*.

The careful preceding small private *rise* — by the careful preceding small private hour of approximately ten years — would, by every careful preceding small private bookkeeping, *begin*.