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Two days later.
The scouts the commander had sent returned, breathless, and relayed what they had witnessed at the Deathless Tomb.
The tale they told sounded more like a myth than reality.
And once he heard it, the commander felt nothing but dread, dread and the creeping chill of hindsight.
By then, Li Yuan and his group had already crossed the old Evernight Line. But the new boundary had long since swallowed this region whole.
They continued west, before gradually turning northwest. All around them was darkness and snow, towns buried under deep drifts. The world looked abandoned.
Snow passed by the small town where she and Li Yuan had once bought the embroidered shoes. Now only the jagged rooftops poked above the snow, their eaves broken, the buildings beneath them buried and lifeless.
Li Yuan passed the mountain where he had once shown the old Wolfmother the sunset. But the green hills were now white, and there was no sunset to speak of.
The maids Mei, Lan, Zhu, and Ju spotted the old path that once led to Dawn Manor. They took a short detour, only to find their ancestral home shrouded in endless darkness, desolate and cold. Not a single light flickered. Not a soul stirred.
These roads used to be full of warmth, chatter, the scent of cooked food, the glow of lanterns. Now, all of that had been buried beneath the snow and shadow.
Among the group,...
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