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Home. It was a word packed with meaning.
When it came to “going home,” Xu Qing remembered Master Seventh saying something like that before. ‘Home’ generally means the same type of thing to most people, but at the same time, everyone would have their own unique interpretations.
When Master Seventh said home, he meant Seven Blood Eyes. When King Firecrusher said home, he meant humankind. To Palace Lord Kong, home was Sea-Sealing County.
As for Xu Qing, his path had taken him from the continent of South Phoenix to Emperor-Receiving Prefecture, then to Sea-Sealing County, then to the Holytide Region... and finally to the imperial capital of humankind.
As time passed, ‘home’ came to mean different things to him.
He went from his shack in the slums to Sergeant Thunder’s residence in the scavenger basecamp. He moved on to Seven Blood Eyes, the Swordsage Palace in Sea-Sealing County, and now he was a resident in the imperial capital.
Without even realizing what was happening, Xu Qing had long since ceased to be that kid from long ago. The years hadn’t taken away his good looks. But his life had continued. Thankfully... the timescape hadn’t marched on fruitlessly.
What was past in the timescape couldn’t be brought back. But the experiences of life were always there, and they became part of memory and part of fate. This process had a name. It was called ‘growing up.’
Thirty years. From the time Xu Qing piled up all those corpses in the ruins of that city until now, thirty years had passed. [1]
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