After setting out in the morning and spending nearly four or five hours sightseeing around Peach Mountain, they had only covered one small corner of it. Peach Mountain occupied a vast expanse of Xuanyuan Hill, with picturesque scenery everywhere—streams, cliffs, and cascading waterfalls. There were stone sculptures and inscriptions left behind by scholars and poets of every age, as well as the underground karst caves known as one of Peach Mountain's Ten Scenic Sights. To truly tour all of Peach Mountain would take at least a week.
By the time they had gone around the spot where Yan Feiqing had once beaten someone senseless, it was already noon.
Seeing the taverns and restaurants along Peach Creek at the foot of Peach Mountain beginning to bustle with activity, Zhang Tie felt thoroughly satisfied. He took the two women to a restaurant by Peach Creek on Peach Mountain that looked rather decent, intending to have lunch and rest awhile.
The sharp eyes of the waiters soliciting customers outside the various restaurants of Xuanyuan Hill were famous throughout Great Xia. Here in Xuanyuan Hill, these people had seen every sort of person: princes and nobles above, peddlers and laborers below, wealthy merchants and royal families from every subcontinent, as well as extraordinary people and strange talents. They had long since developed eyes of fire and gold.
The moment Zhang Tie led Bai Suxian and Yan Feiqing to the entrance of the restaurant called Immortal Guest Residence, the waiter's eyes lit up. Without a moment's hesitation, he tilted his head toward the interior and called out at the top of his lungs, as if singing, "Three honored guests! One elegant private room of the Heaven grade..." Having said that, the waiter immediately broke into a beaming smile, nodding and bowing to the three of