It was only after walking into the City Tower that Li Changshou saw a relatively intact skeleton.
The skeleton was still wearing armor and sat upright behind a stone desk, as if it had been reading.
Yet his left hand rested on a treasured sword whose sheath had long since rotted away.
Although no one knew how many years ago he had died, his bones still emitted a faint jade-white glow, remarkably similar to the legendary Jade Bone possessed only by Saints.
After looking around the arrangements inside the tower, Li Changshou finally saw traces of writing.
On an ordinary, ancient-looking stone tablet, eight Bronze Script characters had been carved: "Loyal and righteous, facing death without retreat."
Apart from that, there was no useful information left inside the City Tower.
After descending from the City Tower, Li Changshou entered a residence near the city wall and discovered a similar situation.
Almost every residence contained weathered corpses. Judging from their appearances, they did not seem to have panicked before death; they had died in an instant.
Walking through the city was practically like entering the set of "Earth After Humanity Suddenly Vanished."
This manner of death did not surprise Li Changshou.
If he wished, he could also instantly erase the souls of everyone in a large city with a population of millions, allowing them to depart peacefully.
Yet the situation in the city was impossible to decipher.
Li Zhi crossed the city, walking directly from the eastern gate to the western gate.
He found that the western gate had not been closed. It was merely ajar, and there were no traces of any soldiers who had once guarded the walls.
The entire pass did not feel like the foremost line of defense against foreign enemies. Instead, it resembled a fortress covering