Along the way, he saw many more cities and villages that had been destroyed not by the flood, but by war. Marquis Shou's army had looted and burned them...
In the past, Tang Changsheng might have thought Marquis Shou's forces so brutal that they had no intention of holding Wu Hou State's territory for long.
But now he knew Marquis Shou had secretly colluded with the Purple Dusk Heavenly Court, laying a net to ambush and kill experts from every side.
Tang Changsheng had already gathered that the most important part of the scheme was the Purple Dusk Heavenly Court's search for some treasure on Fuyang Mountain. Everything else had merely been an Illusion Spell meant to draw away the Eastern Flower Heavenly Court's forces.
But he had no idea what they were looking for. As far as he knew, Fuyang Mountain held no Treasured Artifact worth such a massive undertaking. If it had, wouldn't the Mountain God have claimed it long ago?
Yet the Remnant Soul of the Purple Dusk Heavenly Court fiend he had encountered not long ago had sounded an alarm.
That man had been on Fuyang Mountain looking for the Three Realms Mirror? But the Three Realms Mirror wasn't on Fuyang Mountain at all.
Then Tang Changsheng remembered that Fuyang Mountain was where he had first appeared after using the Bagua Mirror to cross between worlds.
There were also all the traces left in his own world: a token from the Eastern Flower Heavenly Court, a Ritual Sword from the Purple Dusk Heavenly Court...
Together with the records of his sect, they made one thing clear: the Eastern Flower and Purple Dusk Heavenly Courts had fought a battle in his world, and on a considerable scale. Even now, many Treasured Artifacts from that conflict remained scattered