Zhimi was one of the last remaining Incense Offering True Persons of Three-Part Fragrance Pavilion. As a major figure overseeing the organization's affairs in the Jing State region, one of its core pillars in the Northern Domain... naturally, she would not rashly show herself when Zhongshan Weisun had revealed hostility.
Zhongshan Yanwen had ascended to the summit ahead of time, forever severing his hope of Transcendence. An event of such magnitude drew the attention of every major power with the reach to care. Setting aside the records of his monument-carving in the Border Wasteland, he was, after all, still the master of Eagle Soaring Command, one of the highest holders of power in the Present World Order.
In the fall of Southern Dipper Hall, an affair shrouded in no small amount of secrecy, the role Zhongshan Weisun had played was not hard to discern.
He was an immature child, but also a friend who valued loyalty.
Three-Part Fragrance Pavilion had remained wary of the relationship between Zhongshan Weisun and Long Boji.
Yet in all its years of development in Jing territory, it had never felt any resistance from the Zhongshan Clan. Its branch pavilions operating in Eagle Soaring Command had received entirely normal treatment as well.
Time and again, they had extended goodwill toward Young Master Zhongshan, and he had always responded with warmth and laughter, making others feel as though bathed in a spring breeze. He even often came to entertain guests in the pavilion himself, supporting the military command's commerce through his own actions.
The "grown-up" heir of the Zhongshan Clan presumably no longer dwelled on old affairs—
Who would have thought that after so many tranquil, uneventful years, he would suddenly launch an attack on a bright and breezy afternoon?
All it took was recalling how Eastern