The Crimson Tribunal

The Broken Path Book 3

Lian is deep inside Xu Mohan's underground installation with two breakings remaining before accessing the sealed archive. The regional orthodox alliance convenes the Crimson Tribunal — a formal heresy trial that hasn't been called in 200 years. Records reveal the meridian constraints imposed 3,000 years ago were not punishment — they were a quarantine. The thing they were quarantined from is stirring beneath the mountains.