The King's Death [Second Update]

This was a ruin buried deep in the mountains.

Calling it a ruin was not quite accurate. It was really just a series of enormous rooms hidden within the mountain, like factories or warehouses. The rooms were filled with all kinds of shelves and huge mechanical-looking objects, while assorted parts lay scattered across the floor. The shelves, machines, and components were all covered in dust, making the place look like a junkyard.

Fortunately, that junkyard-like state was not all there was to this place. In fact, many of the rooms had begun to be cleaned up three years ago. The parts had been sorted and arranged, while the bamboo slips and silk cloth on the shelves were no longer caked in dust. The once-dim ruins had begun to fill with the breath of life.

Ye Ting had been here for three years.

Three years earlier, Ye Ting had created the phenomenon of the Black Bird, then descended here—into this Shang dynasty ruin within Mount Li—and was discovered by Qin occultists tasked with exploring the site.

Because Ye Ting possessed the bloodline of the Black Bird and the body of an immortal, the Qin occultists had been profoundly shocked the instant they saw him.

The Qin royal line was descended from the Shang dynasty and possessed a trace of the Black Bird's bloodline. Though that bloodline had been diluted beyond measure over time, the power represented by the sunspot still gave every generation of Qin kings the talent to become powerful occultists. It also bestowed upon them the majesty that belonged only to fantasy species.

Yet the occultists were stunned to discover that the pressure of the Black Bird's bloodline emanating from this man who had suddenly appeared on Mount Li surpassed that of the Qin king by an unknown number