These days, the scholars and refined gentlemen of Treasure Bottle Continent read Daoist Golden Core poems, copied Buddhist verses, admired Mirror Flower Water Moon displays from the mountains, and devoured racy novels written by impoverished men of letters below them... Compared with people from other continents, they might have had two more pleasures: passing around a certain splendid Travelogue of Mountains and Rivers, filled with both romance and the bizarre, and recounting the story of a young man from their own homeland and the Sword Qi Great Wall. The travelogue was fiction, after all, but the latter was a true account of real events.
Chen Ping'an?
The new Great Li National Teacher, who came from Luopo Mountain and had been to the Sword Qi Great Wall?
Fu Zheng... did not believe it! Did he take her for a fool?
However inexperienced the girl might be, she was hardly as ill-informed as Water God Wang Xian, who had never even heard of Jing Hao from Liuxia Continent. She was, after all, an aspiring first-rank Ministry of Justice retainer and a spy... in training. Reading all kinds of Travelogues and Reports was part of her daily routine. Even though the man had clearly given his name and named his mountain, she refused to believe him.
The facts were simple. Even if that perverse Prefect Shen had hidden his strength and reached the Nascent Soul Realm—or higher—at most, he was a Jade Purity cultivator with grand ambitions. Give him another realm for free and call him an Immortal. So what? Why would a Great Li National Teacher personally come after him?
Prefect Shen had been executed by a supervising officer of the Great Li border army. After his death, he had become a Fierce Ghost and somehow cultivated into a ghost king, entrenching