Near Xiangshui Village were three small towns. Beyond them stood Xiangshan City, the most prosperous and bustling place in the area. A few years earlier, Wan Qi had moved into the city with his elder sister and younger brother, using the huge sum Yu Sui had given him back then.
Wan Qi's parents had died young, and the two brothers had been raised by their elder sister, Wan Fu. Because she was lame and often ill, Wan Fu usually earned money by doing embroidery at home. She had just married last year, and her husband's family treated her very well. The brothers had spent more than two years looking into their brother-in-law's family before finally agreeing to the marriage.
Though his younger brother Wan Shu was a Normal Practitioner, he had also studied medicine under Wan Qi. In his spare time, he worked as an apprentice at the small clinic Wan Qi had bought.
Wan Qi had returned from Taiyi Academy, and plenty of people in the city were willing to come to him for medical treatment. His business was thriving.
After leaving Taiyi Academy two years ago, he had settled in Xiangshan City and lived a quiet, peaceful life.
Three years ago, a strange fire had burned Zhou Kingdom to the ground, shocking the entire continent. Everyone had thought their deaths were at hand, but Shuizhou had appeared and turned the tide, joining the remaining Five Kingdoms to enact one policy after another to steady the people.
The sacred stones Shuizhou provided had also given people a sense of security, and they gradually returned to their daily lives.
Even before the strange fire destroyed Zhou Kingdom, Wan Qi had already lived as if each day might be his last. So the terror of the world's destruction had little effect