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The Rise of David - XI
by RichXpower
Language: English
Content Rating: All Ages
Book 11 of The Rise of David opens at the climax of a decades-long deception. Tanner, feared leader of Evil Heart Sect, is unmasked as Rudy of Divine Quest Sect — a man who sacrificed his own disciples and spent years as a false lord to revive the being sealed in a bronze coffin. Arthur Sanders stops the ritual at the cost of his life, warning that the coffin's occupant would bring doomsday to the mundane world. David is nearly killed in the aftermath and vanishes from the battlefield.
He wakes broken in Rock Village, saved by Emily and the last scrap of power sealed in a jade pendant. Too weak to be the cultivator he once was, he stays to repay the village: hunting bandits, facing Demon Wolves, and helping restore Emily’s grandmother’s sight. That debt pulls him into Quakersville, where the village is used as bait by Brutus and Francois, and then into Imperial Beast City. There he meets Princess Ivasha and King Yuven, studies the beast race’s sealed alchemy, and begins to recover — while Hosen Holt of Emerald Cauldron Sect extorts the city, and Norwal City’s King Lucian steals David’s Divine Bow.
To reach the sect’s ancient medicinal pool, David joins Emerald Cauldron Sect under the marginalized elder Ghaylen Samoll. He finds a holy alchemy order turned into a business: Hosen and Second Elder Ebenez hoard resources, starve rival disciples, and hide darker ties. David wins public duels, claims the Octo Ruler, and revives Viola Warwick, the poisoned true heir whose father founded the sect. Demons under Faiyar are exposed, Ebenez’s betrayal comes into the open, and David survives the medicinal pool by confronting a self-imprisoned power and refining demonic fire.
The book closes on two unfinished wars. Hosen flees to Norwal City. Lucian’s son Xandros marches on Imperial Beast City Tigerus defects, poisons Yuven and Ivasha, and seizes the throne. Yuven escapes and finds David at Emerald Cauldron Sect just as David, newly revived by three unidentified ancient pills, vows to represent the sect at Jipsdale’s Alchemist Fair. The city has fallen, the princess is a hostage, and David’s next fight is already waiting.