Mirror Flower Water Moon on Luopo Mountain

After entering the house in the alley, Liu Qingfeng and Chen Ping'an caught up as they walked, though their conversation was more formal than Chen Ping'an's reunion with his fellow townsman Zhao Yao.

They mostly talked about Qingluan Kingdom's local customs, as well as Liu Qingshan and Lion Garden. Liu Qingfeng's younger brother, Liu Qingshan, had spent the years since marrying Liu Boqi, the female Daoist of Master Knife Room, traveling far and wide. They had visited Inverted Mountain once, almost as if paying a family visit. Taking a master on the mountain was like being reborn, and Liu Boqi's mentor was the elderly female Daoist who guarded Inverted Mountain's gate. She, the "little Daoist boy" Jiang Yun Sheng of White Jade Capital's Green Jade City, and Sword Immortal Zhang Lu of the Sword Qi Great Wall were separated by a single gate, yet stood in two different worlds. When Liu Boqi returned to Master Knife Room and Liu Qingfeng made his first visit to Inverted Mountain, the Summer Palace received word. Chen Ping'an simply did not show himself at the time.

After they sat down, Chen Ping'an smiled. "When I first came across a certain Travelogue of Mountains and Rivers in a foreign land, my first thought was that Mr. Liu had lost interest in officialdom and started selling his writing for money."

The old Director who had known Li Jin, Water God of the Chongdan River, headed the Department of Clear Affairs for sacrificial rites. That department, Zhao Yao's Merit Assessment Department in the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of War's Department of Military Selections had long been the Great Li Dynasty's most powerful "small" offices. The old man had once taken part in a carefully arranged Great Li hunt through mountains and rivers, surrounding a saber-wearing