Vulpes Inquisition: : Book 7 Bloodforge Series.

The Machine Realm promised to protect its people.

It failed.

Citizens vanish into cultivator hands. Whole communities pay the price. And the Realm's leaders choose compromise over resistance—tolerating the kidnappings, burying the massacres beneath diplomacy. The military and intelligence officials sworn to fight the threat profit from it instead, and silence anyone who exposes the truth.

Mochizuki Jianrong can no longer serve a system that has chosen its own survival over the lives of its people.

But taking the fight to the Cultivator Realm will make everyone she loves a target.

So to protect Yuki, Meifen, Liehuo, Peanut, Tinman, and the family she found, Jianrong lets the Mochizuki clan cast her out—not because she has stopped loving them, but because she refuses to let her enemies reach them through her.

Disowned. Hunted. Carrying the weapons of a government too afraid to use them.

She is not running.

She is taking the war to those who believed consequences would never find them.

WARNING: PG-17+ progression fantasy set in the moral grey zone of cultivator culture. Expect graphic violence, psychological tension, and adult intimacy used as leverage, not titillation.