Two weeks after Geneva, the first attack came. Not against Chen Wei. Against a System bearer training facility in Germany. Twenty students. Fifteen staff. All murdered overnight. Buildings burned. Bodies displayed publicly. A message carved into the ground in characters three meters tall:
"Transcendence is corruption. Evolution is blasphemy. The Purists restore purity."
Chen Wei arrived within hours. Surveyed the c*****e. Used his Timeline Perception to see what happened. Rewound time through the energy signatures left behind.
Ten attackers. All cultivators. Ninety percent evolved or higher. They came at midnight. Overwhelmed security in minutes. Hunted students methodically. No mercy. No hesitation. Every System bearer killed. Every human staff member executed as collaborators.
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