The first relative's village was already burning when they arrived, and Wei Liang didn't slow down to assess the damage before diving straight into the smoke.
"Survivors first," he shouted, pulling a coughing child free from a collapsing doorway. "Xu, where's the family we're looking for."
"Northeast corner," Xu said fast. "I can feel a faint qi signature matching the ledger's description, weak but alive."
Garrow and Wei Dong cleared a path through the burning street while Shen Yue triaged the wounded pulled from collapsing homes. Feng Yao, steadier now after weeks of training, used controlled bursts of qi to knock down a burning support beam before it could crush two fleeing villagers.
"Getting better," Xu observed through Wei Liang, even amid the chaos. "That was clean. Controlled."
