The assembly held an open review in the barn after Hanlo’s initiation failed. Mera invited former initiates, growers, watch volunteers and local healers. She said people could ask questions or listen without speaking. No one needed to prove an injury in public, and the patients could leave their names out of the record.
Qinghe laid out the incomplete handout and the clinic’s anonymous injury notes. Gu brought the complete Blood Ignition manual. Yan placed his cultivation ledger beside them, open to the entries that recorded the art’s effect on his body.
Gu checked the copied sequence and pointed to the omitted recovery circulation. “The handout stops after the surge. The complete manual returns the flow to its resting path. That does not remove the art’s danger for ordinary practitioners.”
A grower asked whether the method’s benefit disappeared when Yan’s System reversed the harm. Yan said no. “The art gives me the normal surge. Its lifespan cost becomes vitality for me. I get the benefit and the matching reversal.”
Another asked whether repeating his breath count would do the same for anyone. “It won’t,” Yan said. “The reversal is mine. You could imitate my posture and get a different result, including the harm.”
