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Without the thousand-mile thread and the Nine Provinces Provisional Patrol Token, Li Yuan felt as though the world had suddenly grown larger.
It was like a modern person used to cars and planes who suddenly found themselves without either, everything slowed to a crawl.
Time. Travel. Life itself slowed down.
Li Yuan left the bustling heart of the Central Capital with Ying Zhuoyao, at his side.
He left behind Xie Yu, Xie Wei, and Zhen'er. In truth, over the past days, he had only been quietly watching them from the shadows. He never once stepped into the Xie household for a simple cup of tea. Because it was in the dark that Li Yuan was strongest. Once he revealed himself, he’d just become another piece in the game, a big fish devouring smaller fish, who in turn devoured shrimp.
But a true chess player should never step onto the board.
Right now, he saw the world as a chessboard because he was on guard against the Human Emperor. Not the boy who he once carried on his back to fly kites, but the one hidden behind that boy, pulling the strings.
Light often casts shadows, and the Human Emperor was the light. So where was the darkness?
Power that vast and terrifying, what price had been paid for it?
And who was orchestrating things from behind the curtain?
Li Yuan’s time wandering...
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