From Mortician to the Sage Who Overturned Heaven
Chapter 162

White Jade Capital in the Heavens, Twelve Towers and Five Cities! (Please Vote)

5,113 words•17 min read•1 views
4d ago•

The founding Demon Emperor of the Former Dynasty yearned desperately for the Fortune True Dragon—the surging Desolate River that stretched across the Great Xin Dynasty. He yearned even more for Heaven on Earth above the river, an elusive place that existed only in legend.

To proclaim his feverish desire for immortality, the Former Dynasty named its capital after a line by the Poet Immortal: "White Jade Capital in the heavens, twelve towers and five cities." They pared it down to just "Jade Capital."

It was an almost obsessive allusion.

Alas, time cut like a blade, and heaven's will was impossible to fathom.

From the Former Dynasty's founding to its final collapse, when its Fortune crumbled and the great edifice toppled, not so much as a crack of a passage opened from the legendary Heaven on Earth during its thousands of years of rule.

It was as though White Jade Capital were only a beautiful lie, looking down from on high at the petty scrambling of the mortal world with cold eyes.

Yet secret rumors still circulated among Sages of the Upper Four Realms who had lived for untold years.

Gather the keys to the passage, and one could truly reach Heaven on Earth and behold the real White Jade Capital described by the Poet Immortal.

Jade Capital City had changed hands and become the political center of the Beiyang Warlords' Commander-in-Chief. Yet its weight of history and the Fortune hidden deep beneath it still drew heroes from across the land like moths to a flame.

Just then, Yue Zhao and Lu Changsheng finished speaking.

They stood shoulder to shoulder, gazes seemingly fixed ahead. In truth, their clashing auras had already completed a silent round of probing and compromise.

Grandmasters seldom needed many words. A glance, a choice of where to

End of Chapter
Novel