At Pei Buji's startled cry, Yang Qing and the others saw the images on the enormous screen begin to change again.
The embroidered birds, beasts, and insects vanished, replaced by a map of mountains and rivers.
Yet this map was quite unlike an ordinary landscape map. On closer inspection, they could see unusual symbols scattered across it in a deliberate arrangement.
"These marks..." Yang Qing studied the map for a while, then suddenly turned toward Jiang Zhizhou. "Xiao Zhou, do you remember where we saw these marks?"
Hearing Yang Qing's words, Jiang Zhizhou leaned closer to look. After a moment, his brow furrowed. "Aren't... aren't these exactly the same as the marks on the murals in that passage?"
The passage murals?
Throughout their journey, they had seen those in only one place.
Spirit Mountain, within the ruins of the Eastern Radiance Ancient Kingdom.
"This is the Western Regions Map!" Pei Buji had also studied it for some time before chiming in.
"The Western Regions Map? And marks connected to the Eastern Radiance Kingdom have appeared on it again. Could the marked locations be the sites of the Eastern Radiance Ancient Kingdom's ruins?"
At the thought of this possibility, the four examined the map on the screen even more closely.
However, after inspecting every corner of the map, they found five or six locations bearing the ruins' marks.
"Look, this mark is the closest to us." Yang Qing raised a hand and pointed to a spot on the map.
Indeed, they were now very close to Jade Gate Pass, and the map showed a set of Eastern Radiance Ruins near their current location.
But although the location was marked on the map, it provided only a general direction.
"Right now, members of the Western Regions Kingdom's royal family have their eyes