by Zhen Bohang
For nine years, Lu Ran has been the Azure Cloud Sect’s greatest failure. Every examination gives him the same result. He should have given up after his first failure. Or his third. Or his ninth, Or when the sect gave him one final chance before sending him to the Mines. But Lu Ran is still here. Every night, he gathers qi with ten breaths, only to watch it disappear. For nine years, he thought he was losing everything he gathered. He never realized something was keeping it.
