Mud Flood Dragon on the Move, Evil Entities Rise Everywhere

Southeast, Lingyou Prefecture.

A convoy of several carriages creaked along a dilapidated official road.

The servants drove the carriages and guarded the many pieces of luggage aboard, while more than a dozen armed retainers rode on horseback to either side, watchfully scanning their surroundings.

This was the convoy of the newly appointed magistrate of Jinhua County in Lingyou Prefecture.

Gao Bai sat in the carriage, enduring the bumpy road and the incessant creaking of the axles.

Though the journey had been difficult, Gao Bai's heart burned with excitement. With his family's help, he had finally become the supreme authority of an entire county.

Ever since the great upheaval of Shanhe World and the severing of communication between Heaven and Earth, there had been no more Immortal Deity among mankind.

The Yellow Springs were sullied, demons ran wild, and the people struggled to survive. Whether at court or in the provinces, governance depended half on cultivators and half on ghosts and gods.

Therefore, to become an official, one not only needed cultivation, but also the ability to borrow the power of ghosts and gods. Only then could one protect the people of an entire county and be entrusted with such an important post.

Gao Bai himself possessed cultivation, and with his family's support, he had enshrined a deity. That was why the court had appointed him magistrate of Jinhua County.

The Yu Dynasty lay in the prosperous southeast, a land of fish and rice with a dense population. Lingyou Prefecture was especially fertile, and even a single county held several hundred thousand people.

For Gao Bai, the incense and spiritual energy of those several hundred thousand people were the most important cultivation resource.

Yet the county's incense and spiritual energy would not belong to Gao Bai alone. He still had to