Qilin's Final Words

Time flowed like water.

In a daze, several hundred more years passed.

Jing City had grown more imposing, more ancient... Weathered blue bricks lined its walls, bearing the marks of passing years.

The Nine-Tier Shaman Terrace still towered above it. Hidden mysteries of Shamanism lay all around, and no one knew how many Grand Witches had achieved breakthroughs there, blessing the place and becoming the wellspring of Shamanism under heaven, drawing visitors from every direction...

"Great Wilderness Calendar, year twenty thousand six hundred... the Earl of Yue destroyed Xia, convened the lords in Eastern Qi, and claimed the position of hegemon under heaven!"

On the seventh tier of the Shaman Terrace, inside her cave dwelling.

Yue held her brush and carefully recorded those words.

Several hundred years had passed. Seas had turned to mulberry fields.

Even a hegemon nation like Xia State had gradually faded after three hundred years of glory.

Now, the nation once ruled by the Jing Son of Heaven's senior vassal had been destroyed by a southern feudal state, its territory swallowed whole...

True, Xia State had lost its position as hegemon and its office as regional lord two hundred years ago. Since then, the neighboring Kingdom of Wei and Kingdom of Han had nibbled away at its lands day by day, month by month...

Still, its complete annexation left Yue sighing. "The Jing Son of Heaven's face has been thrown to the ground and trampled. He can no longer overawe the feudal states at all..."

"I hear there's a Grand Witch in the Kingdom of Yue who wants to establish another Shaman Terrace..."

The enfeoffment system of Jing Kingdom now ran with fits and starts, but it still held the realm together.

Yet the rise of the southern hegemon, Yue, had dealt that order a terrifying