One thing led to another, and Nian Xin became the warden of the prison. Su Kan, who came from the Jade Shuyuan's Zhan Kan Department, still worked under her, while Yan Jiaoran's forces withdrew from the place entirely.
With Nian Xin in tow, Chen Ping'an inspected several Mountain Water Formations around the prison's outermost layer. He also stopped by Baogao Peak, a secondary peak of the Eastern Sacred Mountain north of the Grand River. Its ancestral peak, Qishan Mountain, lay south of the river. When the post of Great Li National Teacher had stood vacant, the southern kingdoms had complained loudly: why was Great Li's Eastern Sacred Mountain in another country's territory? It was hardly proper. Then Chen Ping'an took up the post, Sword Immortals of at least the Jade Pu Realm appeared on the imperial road in the capital, and several sword boats rose into the sky... That very day, several National Edicts reached the Great Li Court of State Ceremonial. Their senders took the initiative to ask the Great Li Ministry of Rites about construction on certain branches of the Eastern Sacred Mountain, offering people and money as their modest contribution. They all meant much the same thing: the Eastern Sacred Mountain belonged to the Great Li Song Clan, but it was also the Eastern Sacred Mountain of Treasure Bottle Continent.
The National Teacher's arrival naturally alerted Meng Long, the Divine Lord bearing the divine name Heroic Spirit. She immediately assembled the officials and goddesses of the ancestral mountain's ceremonial offices and inspection bureaus, set out her carriages, and hurried through the wind toward the secondary peak. The goddesses had dressed with care, while their attendants wore armor of every color. They came in a vast procession like a colored ribbon suspended in the air, radiant and magnificent