April 16, Swallow Province, Morality Prefecture. The day before the Stele Opening Festival, before the morning sun had risen, the entire Morality Prefecture was already boiling over.
Morality Prefecture had not originally been called Morality Prefecture. Before Black Iron Calendar 687, it had another name—Peace Screen Prefecture. But after Black Iron Calendar 687, Peace Screen Prefecture gradually became Morality Prefecture. That was because on April 17 of Black Iron Calendar 687, an earthquake struck Peace Screen Prefecture, and Hongyu Mountain within the prefecture collapsed. Amid the crumbling mountain range, the Ancient Morality Stele emerged out of thin air, shocking the world.
Fifteen years after the Ancient Morality Stele appeared, a youth named Meng Shidao—born in Peace Screen Prefecture on the very same year and day that the stele had emerged—comprehended the Way and cultivated beneath the Ancient Morality Stele for three years. At eighteen, he advanced to become a Black Iron Knight. The Ancient Morality Stele thus became a divine object in the mouths of many within Peace Screen Prefecture. Thirty years later, the youth who had comprehended the Way beneath the stele had become a middle-aged man and advanced once more, becoming an Earth Knight. The Ancient Morality Stele's influence spread across all of Swallow Province, drawing the eyes of the world. Peace Screen Prefecture gradually became Morality Prefecture. Afterward, Meng Shidao began writing books and expounding his teachings, which swept across the land. The so-called Devouring Party gradually took shape, and Meng Shidao naturally became the leader of Swallow Hall.
Over the following two centuries, as Meng Shidao's cultivation grew ever stronger and his achievements ever greater, this man from Swallow Province became renowned throughout the world. In the end, he became the Crown Prince's teacher and Grand Minister of Education, one of the Three Excellencies. The influence