After removing the palace, the top of the mountain looked rather strange. The guards noticed a square base at the bottom that wasn’t part of the palace’s foundation. However, the surface wasn’t flat and had uneven spots everywhere. 

Li Qiye stood on top of it and began touching the ground. Firerage watched him and thought that the cracks were strange as well.

The breaks were clean too. Whatever caused this did it in the blink of an eye. This should be a sword slash or something similar but in that case, it shouldn’t have left these uneven spots.

He touched it himself and felt something weird. Something had seeped into the...