"This damned Saint Spirit Ancestral Court has finally been destroyed..."
At this moment, countless races and factions within the Southern Ridge that had been oppressed by the Saint Spirit Ancestral Court for ages were moved to tears. They knelt upon the ground and kowtowed in the Female Emperor's direction.
Yet to the Female Emperor, it seemed as though she had merely done something insignificant.
She withdrew her hand, turned around, and with a single step, returned to the Southern Region of Eastern Wasteland.
Tap... tap...
Her figure vanished from the watching heroes' sight, and her aura withdrew inward.
The Female Emperor silently crossed the mountains and rivers of the Southern Region, traversing roads that, after tens of thousands of years, had become scarcely recognizable.
In the end, she arrived within the ruins of the Ancient Yan Kingdom.
Ten thousand years had passed. Even some mountains and rivers might have changed shape and course, while this mortal dynasty had naturally undergone several changes.
Yet the land was still ruled by a kingdom that had adopted the ancient land's character "Yan," calling itself the Dan Yan Kingdom.
The Female Emperor walked and paused along the way, and the farther she went, the more remote her surroundings became.
The mountain path wound onward, and a small village rested quietly amid the mountains.
The village was not large, with only several dozen households, all ordinary mortals.
A stone tablet stood at the village entrance, engraved with three words: Yaoguang Village.
It was rather poignant. Empires remained eternal while dynasties flowed by; even the name of a nation had changed several times, yet this tiny village still bore the same name.
But it was not difficult to understand. People lived off the mountains near mountains and off the waters near waters. The names of many