Celestial Spring Station was first established during Emperor Wu of Han's western campaigns and destroyed in t…
Celestial Spring Station was first established during Emperor Wu of Han's western campaigns and destroyed in the years when war raged across the Western Realms.
The final station master upheld his duty for a lifetime, never abandoning his mission even as all contact faded into silence.
Fortune smiled when he crossed the boundless sands and reached his homeland's border. Yet fate frowned when he was captured and exiled—becoming a bound barbarian, enduring injustice.
All the hardship, all the wandering—transformed now into a well of sorrow, a crown of thorns piercing his very soul.
He returns once more to the endless desert, searching for traces of his fallen comrades.
But what greets him is only the biting wind, the steadfast poplars, and the silent fortress standing guard in solitude.
The courier became an ark of tree, drifting through the cold, desolate, eternal night.
Forever lost in the sea of sand, the vessel seeks the distant flutter of long-lost banners.