Xu Zimo raised his head. He did not pay attention to those symbols first.
Instead, he walked to the very edge of Cliff of Contemplation, where the precipice ended.
Looking ahead from here,
he was now standing at the highest point of the City of Hundred Battles.
If one looked around in every direction, with a broad enough field of vision, one could see more than half of the City of Hundred Battles.
Standing here, his lofty ambitions surged for a moment. It felt as though heaven and earth lay in his hands, as he looked down upon the vast land—who would rule its rise and fall?
"This really is a quiet, fine place," Xu Zimo said with a smile.
Back then, the Empress had likely gazed upon these splendid mountains and rivers as well.
Xu Zimo turned around and looked once more at those symbols.
They were strange symbols, with no discernible pattern.
Xu Zimo studied them for a long while, yet he could not make heads or tails of them.
That was perfectly normal.
Over countless millennia, all manner of extraordinary people and powerful experts had come here to investigate.
Since no one had discovered anything, it meant either that this thing could not be understood by the naked eye, or that it truly served no purpose.
It might have merely been something the Empress had casually left behind.
Xu Zimo had been about to leave when his brow suddenly furrowed.
Because within his body, the Vast Heavens Fragment left behind by the Empress began to tremble.
It seemed to have sensed something.
"Could this fragment be connected to these runes?"
With that thought in mind, Xu Zimo slowly took out the fragment.
Once the fragment was removed, it struggled even more fiercely.
It was as if it