Nine Phoenixes danced together, flying southwest.
What lay to the southwest?
There stood Heavenly Severance Peak, proclaimed to be "where Southern Heaven comes to an end."
As everyone knew, Grand City of the Mohist School would hover here whenever the Thousand Mechanisms Assembly was held.
Naturally, people also knew that Grand City would not remain here for long. For most of the time, outsiders could not ascertain its location.
For many people, the Thousand Mechanisms Assembly was the only opportunity in their entire lives to come into contact with Grand City.
The Thousand Mechanisms Assembly generally lasted nine days and, according to ancient tradition, was held once every nine years. The last one had begun on March 28 of this year and ended on April 5. The next would not begin until Dao Calendar 3937.
Yet the nine phoenixes born at the end of September still flew this way—
It was nothing less than an arrogant declaration: I'm here. Are you coming or not?
Deep within the mountains of the Southern Regions, steel roared without cease.
Though the Thousand Mechanisms Assembly had long since ended, the mechanized kingdom spread across the summit of Heavenly Severance Peak was the Mohist School's answer.
They were here. They were waiting.
The Mohist School had made many preparations for this day and attempted many possibilities for reconciliation. Unfortunately, none had succeeded in the end.
When phoenix cries rang through the mountains, a man dressed in a wealthy gentleman's robe patterned with square-holed copper coins appeared in the Monarch of Sin Hall within Grand City.
He was fairly ordinary-looking, but his overly sharp, thin face and overly bright eyes gave him an exceptionally sly air.
He was the least Grandmaster-like Grandmaster under heaven. In his youth, he had never studied properly—a representative of the ignorant