The hearing chair asked Yan to explain the System and Final Offering in plain terms. Yan stood at the witness table while the clerk cleared a fresh page in the record.
“The reversal applies to the intrinsic harmful effects of my own complete cultivation practice, or an elixir I consume,” Yan said. “The intended benefit remains. The cost becomes a matching gain for me. It does not reverse another person’s sacrifice, an ordinary injury, or damage from the storm.”
Deng Shu raised a hand. He held his brother’s old station roster by its frayed edge. “Could the furnace operators have gained the years back through your art?”
“No. The furnace art would have destroyed an ordinary practitioner. Its effect is personal to me. Those records show what was taken from the operators. They are not a way to transfer the cost back.”
Qinghe brought her clinical notes to the table. She described the measured elixir tests and the Palm treatment of a living patient. Yan’s reversal had not passed to her or to the patient; the Palm could heal living tissue, but the patient still needed ordinary wound care and follow-up.
Deng glanced down at the roster. “And my brother? If I had reached you before he died, could the Palm have saved him?”
