Mount Aiden.
These mountains might have had a glorious history long ago, but now they were rarely visited. The entire Sunset Mountains range was exceptionally steep and difficult to climb, with dense vegetation and peaks covered in snow year-round.
"It doesn't look like there's anything unusual up there."
Li Wei lifted his head from the viewing scope and muttered under his breath. He had just swept the Sunset Mountains with [Soul Sight], but found nothing. Then he had focused on the summit of each peak, hoping to spot traces of man-made structures, only to be sorely disappointed again.
Yet that was indeed what the account described.
Li Wei glanced again at the Biography of Emperor Arthur beside him. The passage before him recounted the saintess's later life.
"She accepted the emperor's investiture and returned to her former homeland, where she built a castle. Its lights shone day and night, as though proclaiming to the people of that region that their guardian would always be there, watching over them. Whenever her subjects raised their heads, they could see that reassuring glow."
Li Wei tried to glean clues from this literary flourish. First, the castle had to be somewhere high. Second, it probably had something like a lighthouse. After all, the book said her subjects had to look up to see it, so the structure was presumably on a tall mountain and should have been very conspicuous.
Even if it had collapsed, it ought to have left at least some traces.
But Li Wei saw nothing.
He had to admit that after carefully reading through the chapters about the saintess in the Biography of Emperor Arthur, his impression of her had changed considerably.
At first, he had only heard stories about the saintess. Back then, Li Wei had imagined her as a