In the first month of spring in the seventeenth year of Hongjing, Wei Yuan stood above Qingming, observing the aura of the Six Realms in all directions and seeing the semblance of peace under heaven.
The frontline still remained, and the war had just ceased.
At this hour, the round moon hung high in the sky, with countless stars. On the earth, clusters of human lights were even more densely scattered and brilliant than the stars in the Star River above.
Qingming was now close to ten thousand miles wide, immensely vast, encompassing the three prefectures of Jin Nan and the Ningxi Three Commanderies originally belonging to the Xui Family in the east.
