The Blackstone Empire was one of the many great empires that had vanished without a trace in recent times.
For a long while, Jun Wu and Mei Ling sat in silence, the weight of that knowledge pressing heavily on them.
The history of the continent was already fractured and unreliable, riddled with contradictions and missing pieces.
Yet this revelation unsettled them more than most.
Neither knew how to even begin piecing the puzzle together.
As for traveling to the location marked on the ruin map, they did not dare think about it.
The valley existed only on the ancient map.
On any current map of the Soaring Cloud Region, no such valley was marked.
It was as though the place itself had been swallowed by time.
"It's as if the land itself has vanished," Mei Ling murmured, her cold gaze lingering on the fading ink of the map.
Then she looked at Jun Wu, her eyes sharpening. "Do you know anyone you can ask?"
