The black mass inside the Emperor's body reacted.
It attempted to retreat through the Sovereign Thread, but Yang Lujia's Grand Script had already enclosed the affected region.
There was nowhere for it to go.
The unstable Ink was removed first.
Afterward, the smaller strokes carried by Yang Lujia's character spread into the empty portions of the leyline. They gathered Ink residue from beneath the surrounding districts, the protective Grand Scripts, and the natural circulation flowing through the region.
Yang Lujia did not simply force the city to provide everything it possessed.
He took only the unused residue that had accumulated within the leyline over many years and guided it into the missing foundation.
The damaged strokes began returning.
The white portions of the street regained their texture. The wooden pillars surrounding the Exchange Ward recovered their grain, while the missing words upon shop signs appeared again one stroke at a time.
