Okay, so, what do you even do after you kill someone in a Chaos-grade city?
Like, actually. Not the scroll version where everything's a neat "he vanished in a flash of light" ending. Real life? Real cultivation? It's messy. Complicated. Stressful.
Ian stood there, right where Ren had been. Or... where he used to be. There wasn't much left now.
Ash. Smoke. A few faint fragments of clothing. That was the thing about chaos lightning, it didn't just kill, it fucking unmade. Scrambled matter. Erased energy signatures. Beautiful in theory, terrifying in practice.
But it didn't erase everything.
Which was a problem.
Because Ian wasn't a sect enforcer. He wasn't an elder. He wasn't authorized to kill someone inside city limits, even if that someone tried to assassinate him. The sect had rules. Complex ones. And one of them was: no bloodshed within the outer meditation rings.
So yeah. This could get him executed.
First step? Evidence.
