Were Gongsun Ze and Gongsun Ru going up the Sacred Mountain?
Yang Qing got out of bed as he listened to Jiang Zhizhou recount the scraps of news he had picked up from the townspeople over the past few days.
The so-called Sacred Mountain was said to be where the ancestors of the Eastern Splendor Royal Family had lived before they rose to power.
And it lay less than ten li from Upside-Down City.
To other people, neither the Sacred Mountain nor the ancestors of Eastern Splendor had anything to do with them.
But to members of the Eastern Splendor Royal Family, the Sacred Mountain represented the origins of their royal house.
"What are they going up the Sacred Mountain for at a time like this?" Yang Qing asked.
Jiang Zhizhou looked grave. "I did find out a few other things, but they sound utterly incredible."
Yang Qing said, "We've already seen so many ox-headed demons and serpent spirits. No matter how incredible it is, we can bear to hear it."
Besides, things that seemed contrary to reason often turned out to be true in the end.
Far too many things happened in this world that could not be judged by ordinary reasoning.
And Yang Qing and the others had witnessed such things themselves.
Jiang Zhizhou looked at Yang Qing. "There's a rumor that the Sacred Emperor's reincarnation has been found on the Sacred Mountain."
The Sacred Mountain was the birthplace of the Eastern Splendor Royal Family. Although they had left it to conquer the world after growing in strength, people had continued living there throughout the centuries.
And those who remained there all had some degree of blood relation to the Eastern Splendor Royal Family.
The Sacred Emperor's reincarnation?
Yang Qing suddenly recalled the last words Emperor Zhetian had