A rogue cultivator infiltrated the sect with a forbidden artifact — the Crimson Scroll, which melted minds and reversed meridians.
He unleashed it during a lecture, laughing.
Disciples screamed. Elders froze, unable to suppress the twisted qi.
Then Han Li walked past.
The scroll's aura reached for him.
It touched him.
And caught fire.
The scroll shrieked.
"No! Not again!"
It burned to ashes.
The rogue fainted.
Elder Feng knelt beside the ashes, trembling. "This… this scroll devoured empires. And it just… self-destructed."
Han Li kept walking. "Littering is dangerous."