Past Events of Leifeng Pagoda! A Fabricated Legend by Sou Shen Gong! (Please Vote)

Songs drifted along the riverbanks, while people and horses crossed the bridges.

Leifeng Pagoda looked distant from its peak, while the springs of Ge Ridge murmured afar.

Leifeng Pagoda had actually been built during the era of the long-destroyed Wu Yue Kingdom.

Back then, when King Qian Jiao of Wu Yue had a son with his favored consort, Lady Huang, he was overjoyed and ordered a thirteen-story brick pagoda built beside West Lake, using eighty-four thousand Buddhist scriptures to pray for Lady Huang's safety.

Thus, Leifeng Pagoda had originally been called Huang Fei Pagoda.

This wondrous Buddhist pagoda, which had carried beautiful legends since ancient times, stood upon a mountain called Leifeng Peak. Gradually, later generations began calling it Leifeng Pagoda.

Later, Wu Yue fell. When Song relocated to Hangzhou City under pressure from Jin State, this place also became Song territory.

After Song stabilized, Hangzhou City grew increasingly prosperous. Officials drowned themselves in luxury, while wandering martial artists, scholars, and refined poets all lingered here, creating the flourishing spectacle of endless songs and dances around West Lake.

During that period, many beautiful myths and legends spread throughout West Lake. The most famous legend connected to Leifeng Pagoda was undoubtedly the tragic tale of Bai Suzhen, Xu Xian, and Monk Fahai.

That legend had endured to this day, moving countless people with the unwavering love between Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen, leaving them intoxicated by a tale of devotion that remained unchanged even beneath the oppression of authority.

But legends were legends in the end. They might be touching and inspiring, but they were ultimately not real. If someone one day claimed that the legend was true, that Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian had truly existed, most people would probably think that person insane.

"However, according to the surviving fragments