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The Inheritance XVI
by Arise
Language: English
Content Rating: All Ages
Richard Crawford leaves Japan aboard a Yamashita cargo ship with Senior Jobson, Aiden, Fujiko, and Master Ghost, carrying a sea map that once showed Yearning Island for ten seconds and never again — the island where his family is held, and where the Crawford heir Will wants him dead before he can reach it.
Landfall in Yanam puts him under the roof of the Grubb family and into an auction where a beast-shaped cauldron, a five-hundred-year-old ginseng, and a tattered cultivation manual draw more dangerous bidders than Richard expects.
The Zemans reveal why they have been watching him: Richard carries the Herculean Primordial Spirit, the one ingredient in a cure their patriarch has spent ten years searching for, and they need him alive and willing.
The road to the ruins runs down through Fyre Cave to the Red River, past the bones of everyone who tried before, to Ryder — a prodigy who murdered seventy-one of his own sect and has spent a lifetime sealed below, waiting for someone to hand him the way out.
Richard breaks him, masters the Cosmo-Amorphous Sword Technique in the process, and surfaces to find that the fight above ground has already moved without him: Harper cornered, Jaxen circling the family's assets, and a voice in a closed tavern announcing that the ambush was always waiting.