The Empress's Last Letter

[Dead? Wasn't she the Empress? Shouldn't she have been incredibly strong? How could she...]

[Shen Jia told you about the war at Cangqiong Ridge.]

[It was far more than just the Empress.]

[Of the martial forces within the Five Domains, around seventy percent had been wiped out—or nearly wiped out—in this war between the two races.]

[Even among the eight strongest sects known as the Eight Pillars of the Five Domains, five had lost all their elites, their upper ranks had shed blood, and the other three were not faring well either.]

[Even the Sword Master, hailed as the strongest in the Five Domains, had exhausted his life force and died after slaying three ancestors with a single sword strike.]

[And there was that worthless emperor of Dagan.]

[Everyone said he was muddleheaded and incompetent, yet he too had been a powerful Martial Artist. Not only had he personally led the expedition, he had also died in battle at Cangqiong Ridge.]

[Without his sacrifice, the Sword Master's earth-shaking sword strike could never have come to pass.]

[This emperor had originally been unpopular, but after he fought for the Human Race and returned wrapped in horsehide, the common people of the realm petitioned to grant him the temple name "Ganwu Sect."]

[There were many, many other great figures with names and surnames who had died at Cangqiong Ridge.]

[Shen Jia had also heard that the Divine Monkey General of Shenbing Commandery had turned into a colossal stone overseas, eternally suppressing the Demon Monkey Great Vanguard beneath the sea.]

[The war still had not ended.]