"xing shui, wang hong, zhao lin what did you find all these years?" tian hao asked.
"brother tian we have collected all the scrolls of those mysterious missing person reports and sorted them all" xing shui replied.
he is someone easily coerced just by money he joined tian hao's force but later he developed his wisdom and found pleasing to tian hao as his work load decreased a bit but his hair contain traces of white whether it be the stress, age, burden or something entirely else. he wondered if would be able to become immortal as he is nearing 45 years old.
" 19 years ago, 12 people from town xiang, 5 from imperial capital........a total of 441 from 9 heaven states, 36 earth states,108 human states form qi,tang,wan,li dynasties although qi and li records are unclear"
"39 years ago 621 people, 59 years ago 104 people, 79 years ago 334 people, records from before are lost" xing shui briefed. "although there are a lot of inconsistencies almost most of the missing people are either found, died, suspected of leaving the states for various reasons. but only these cases reported to have disappeared that the most of these people believed that they would never leave the state or kill themselves for various reasons and that they were fine mentally and physically".
" i have sent people visit these families and most them never left the house. i heard one servant say that he saw a person speaking the young master on that night and that he appeared mysterious and arrogant. she said she felt like that person might have noticed her and she feared she might die. so she escaped that place and came to the most lively place that night the lantern festival across the lotus lake".
wang hong said "boss, it seems like immortals do exist. we tried to get our hands on imperial historical records but never succeeded. even these reports of the abyss,98 peaks and missing records, it seems the magistrates and ministers never cared about us acquiring these records and some even bribed us with these records to solve their cases and for various martial forces and other missions.
"xing shui send with 500 strong men as i travel to these places and themoney we plundered from those rich officials" tian hao commanded. "sigh, only with strength can one survive i still vividly remember my first theft although the plan was flawless. that fool got caught and slipped all the info, i still have the wounds from the two arrows that hit me" tian hao recalled.
although there are up and down under tian hao's commands and flawless plan they all rose from the ashes and they are now standing side by side with those small provincial kings. this was all due tian hao, they accepted him as their commander long ago. they would have died under that war14 years ago if not his military strategy. qi dynasty made 24 bridges across the abyss unknown the song and wan dynasties. if not for these bridges they have to walk particularly long way to reach song and wan dynasties.
it was very difficult to build a bright sturdy enough to withstand horses and carriages as the abyss was a 1500 feet wide. it was said that 80 years ago li dynasty made progress in technical warfare and somehow qi dynasty stole celestial builder and the record of 100 mechanisms and secretly prepared to conquer the world.
they invaded with full force and it was then that song and wan formed an alliance and forced immortal ascension brigade to join their cause. it was the name of the military force tian hao created although he is not the one commanded it but planned their course. they named as such against the imperial orders to honor tian hao's actions of unifying the tribes. even then they suffered heavy loses during these five year long fight li assaulted them from the sides and wan and song from the front but their technology is far more powerful. if not the tian hao's 108 strategies and li dynasty taking drastic measures and sharing the craftmanship copy they would have lost. even so the three dynasties lost 26 states including three heaven states.it was mainly because they were unable to create these weapons on short notice and mainly focused on the weapons flaws such as water due that they discovered was able to nullify the weapons speed and damage mostly in the air. it was a kind of gas that was very active and made the weapons a bit rusty.
during these times that tian hao was able please the three emperors and obtain their records. it was considered lucky if not the invasion taking the three nations attention they would have become the target instead. before this mission i will visit my family once more. my sister married to the 7th prince of the song after the war ended and this 7th prince now with my efforts, his position is next only to the crown prince .my father died during the war due to an uncurable disease. i spent 3 years tending to him in his last breaths. then i took my mother with me to where i was residing it's not that i am heartless but it is harmful for her to be with me without stabilizing my position in this world.
three months later, "we have finally arrived at the an hui province nearest to the demon heart abyss. legend has it that an immortal sword struck these lands. there might be a bit of truth to it though, this abyss although a bit curvy but we can draw a straight line from the start to the end. but there is a reason for it to be called demon heart abyss. every 50 years when the three moon form a triangular pattern a demonic sound of heart beat sounds across the region. some say it's the demon the immortal fought with and was sealed underneath." tian hao mumbled