One Move

Chu Honglin now understood that they were not heading for the imperial city after all. He asked doubtfully, "The real Thousand Mechanisms Tower isn't actually in the imperial city?"

"It's not in the imperial city," Chu Zhiyuan said. "These devil sects really can't be underestimated."

Judging by their expressions, this place was somewhere the Imperial Court would never have imagined.

Where could it be?

Driven by curiosity, the two did not hurry to deal with the Feiyun Sect. Instead, they followed behind this group.

They watched as the group kept heading east, traveling a hundred li before arriving at a majestic mountain peak.

At the summit stood a giant stone statue of a person, posed with both hands raised to hold up the sky.

Not far from the statue stood a great hall.

In the end, these people entered the hall atop the mountain.

Chu Zhiyuan looked toward Chu Honglin.

Chu Honglin frowned in thought.

After a moment, he said quietly, "This peak is Dragon Subduing Peak. Above it is a mountain god, and that hall is the Mountain God Hall."

Chu Zhiyuan shook his head.

There had been no Dragon Subduing Peak in the original owner's memories.

"I know of it only because of a legend," Chu Honglin said. "It is said that this mountain fell from the heavens. Ever since it appeared, there have been no more Earth Dragon turnings within a hundred li, so that statue came to be called the Mountain God."

"Dragon Subduing? It subdued Earth Dragons?"

"Yes. Earth Dragons often turned in these mountains, caused by the churning of Earth Qi. No external force could suppress it, but after this peak descended, Earth Dragons never turned again."

"Or perhaps the chaotic Earth Qi simply settled into balance afterward?"

Chu Zhiyuan was only half-convinced by