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Early autumn.
Within his residence in the Western Capital, Li Yuan had yet to hear back from the envoy he’d sent north to the Huyan Clan. The man had vanished as if dropped into the sea. No word. No trace. It was as if he’d ceased to exist.
The one sent to the Eastern Sea had similarly gone silent. With the glaciers of the Western Extremes melting, sea levels had surged, swallowing many islands. The old nautical charts were now worthless. And trying to locate an already distant island amid that chaos was near impossible.
Only the team sent west, to investigate the legendary Deathless Tomb, had returned with any kind of report.
But calling it a report might’ve been generous. What they brought back sounded more like legends.
There were stories of a land of the immortal, the Divine Mother, an elixir of eternal life, and a mystical crow who gathered food and served the eternal.
It was all myth and mystery, none of it what Li Yuan was actually looking for.
He thought on it briefly, then understood.
Hearsay about Sheng’er, the Deathless Tomb, and immortality had been passed around many times, whether through the Nine Flames Tribe or the upper circles of the imperial court in the Central Plains. Now it had been woven together into a single grand mythology, one that no longer resembled truth…
He knew that the terrain beyond Cloudpeak Province had changed drastically. Back when Yin and Yang had briefly...
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