Chapter 225 Book 5 Poisoner
The days in the holding chamber dragged like frozen honey. Li An sat cross-legged on the cold stone floor, breathing steadily in the dim, rune-etched silence. No sunlight. No visitors. The meals were sparse, the water slightly bitter, and the presence of surveillance talismans was constant. For most, such conditions would have cracked the mind. Only Seedee would accompany her every now and then when she gets too bored.
But Li An simply waited.
Time was a tool. Silence, a weapon.
On the second night, she used both.
The Azure Feather Sect's surveillance was powerful and alert, but they were not perfect. Deep in the early hours, when the night was at its most silent and even the guards' active awareness began to dull, Li An acted. Her body, trained in the heavenly body refining technique, moved with fluid grace. She manipulated the weak spot in the cell—a discovery made on her second day—and slipped out into the shadowed corridors of the inner sect.
