Chapter 750 Similar capital

Chapter 750 Similar capital

Following his trail of thought, Yang Qing willed his thoughts to the Xuanwu.

"History of the Jade Leaf Academy.."

A moment later fourteen lights flew to him. Some were scrolls, others were books, a few tablets, and one tree trunk that had been hollowed with writing on its hollowed-out interior.

Yang Qing stared wide-eyed as he didn't expect to get anything. He had been told his clearance was restricted to matters concerned with the Deer Mountain Range. With eagerness, he quickly went for the tree trunk. The more bizarre-looking one was bound to contain the juiciest of information.

However, twenty minutes later he had a dejected look on his face as he put away the last scroll.

"Figures they would be so thorough..." muttered Yang Qing with a look like he had just swallowed a fly.

None of the scrolls, books, tablets, or the tree trunk contained what he was looking for. He had hoped he would find information about the founder in there somewhere, but he found no hint or mention of the founder.

While the information recorded in those fourteen instruments was pretty in-depth, ultimately, it lacked what he truly wanted to find out, and as he read through them, he realized they all came from the low-tier blue grade level, which was his original clearance level.

Sighing in defeat, he willed the fourteen objects to return whence they came. He had no intention of wasting what little time he had left in reading things he already had access to, no matter how intriguing the information was. With his guess that Long Wan may have been the founder of the Jade Leaf Academy, he became interested in the Academy, considering if he didn't make it to the Order, being a student of the Academy may have been the next best thing for him, and he had a feeling had his family's old friend, Alchemist Ma Bo who was a guest teacher at the Academy, had he been there when he was leaving, he would have left with him for the Academy instead of coming to the Order.

The drawings Yang Qing made were not based on the description given by Long Wan but were instead based on the two statues he saw outside the palace. Just outside the capital, the two statues had inadvertently drawn Yang Qing's eyes, not because they had anything that made them stand out, in fact, it was quite the opposite actually. They looked quite worn with cracks, and chips here and there, with their features not as distinctive. Yang Qing had felt it was odd for the two statues to be left hanging around at the entrance of the palace despite its beat-up state.

At the time he had thought there was more to them than met the eye, but after scanning them, he didn't detect anything and assumed they had been kept for sentimental purposes maybe, which was when the Imperial Secretary He Shan had admitted to such. The statues were kept because of their endurance and hardiness. No matter how much chaos and destruction the kingdom faced, somehow the statues always remained intact since the kingdom started. As a result, the first king of the Deer Mountain Kingdom decided to keep the two statues around out of an endearing sentiment on their ability to withstand hard times which was what he hoped for his kingdom, and every king that succeeded him continued to keep them around to echo his sentiments.

Yang Qing closed his eyes as he tried to recall every sensation he had when he was next to those statues to try and see if there was something he may have overlooked. A few minutes later he shook his head, as his gaze fell on the drawing of the statues.

"Could it have been dormant? If it is the same as the two statues that supported the rise of the Bi Xie Empire, then maybe the ritual of cleaning needed to be upheld which clearly the Deer Mountain Kingdom didn't do. Maybe that is why it seemed no different than regular statues when I was there.." muttered Yang Qing as he held his chin in deep contemplation.

Though the two statues were kept around the palace, possibly as a superstitious symbol for good luck, there were signs of neglect on them from the state they were in, and the accumulation of grime on them. Other than placing them at the entrance for symbolism, they were not cared for the same way the Wang Patriarch, did. But that was under the assumption that the two statues were similar to the one that transformed the fate of the Wang Patriarch. Yang Qing didn't feel it was wrong to hold a little reservation about them being the same ones, after all, Bi Xie and Tian Lu statues were pretty common as most people used them symbolically to bring good fortunes to their homes, businesses, and personal lives.

Yang Qing then went on to draw web-like lines that spanned across the entire parchment, seemingly connecting the entire boundaries and at the center of the parchment he wrote the words 'Bi Xie Empire'

"If their territory spanned the entire range, it would certainly explain why it is far richer than any rank 3 territory. The mature dragon veins, its ability to support a sacred graveyard, that grotto, and all the other mysterious happenings around it..even if it's not the same as what Senior Long Wan described about the Empire, there's no denying that the range is unique..it even drew the attention of that mysterious figure.

If my guess is right, then quite possibly, the capital of the Deer Mountain Kingdom and the capital of the Bi Xie Empire should be the same.." muttered Yang Qing as he traced a line to the royal capital of the Deer Mountain Kingdom which he circled.

"With the abilities and foundations described, how did such a behemoth figure even fall in the first place?" said Yang Qing as he drew a few question mark signs next to the words 'Bi Xie Empire' while adding a few more words next to it 'Sky rendering sword sect' and a few question marks next to it, while below he wrote 'ascendancy?'