In those more than seven hundred days and nights, what kind of effort was required to transform a coward who fled without fighting into the strong warrior who now wiped out Fierce Beasts?
Others could not know.
Jiang Wang and the others merely followed his footsteps unconsciously, climbing upward, ever upward.
Finally, they stood atop the precipitous peak.
At the summit, an emptiness prevailed. Only a solitary grave stood erect.
The grave was small and simple. There was just a tombstone erected in front of it.
Jiang Wang approached it for a closer look, and saw inscribed upon it—
Here lies Sun Heng, who cleansed Jade Balance Peak.
The handwriting was delicate, but the characters were deeply etched into the stone, revealing great strength.
"Sun Heng was the City Lord of the Three Mountains City two years ago; his wife erected this monument,"
Li Jianqiu spoke, "The ravages of the Fierce Beasts have been an issue that Three Mountains City has had to face since its founding.
