"Make the arrangements..."
Jingzhe could only observe a moment of silence. At that moment, she also understood the pressure that had driven the shrine maiden to flee on the spot. She, too, would have run without hesitation. The pressure of facing that person head-on was simply unimaginable.
Jingzhe could calmly deliver her report before His Majesty the Emperor, but before an Immortal, she felt like a child who had done something wrong.
"There is no need to panic. This is merely a lesson."
That was how Hoshino comforted her.
It was not comforting in the slightest. Instead, it made her want to observe a moment of silence even more.
Hoshino vanished completely before Jingzhe's eyes. Looking down, Jingzhe found that time seemed to be passing very quickly. When she looked up again, the Nian Beast was gone as well. Only the wind silently brushed over the map, as though those two had never existed.
"Alas."
The arrival of Venerable Immortal Fu Hua was far from a simple matter. It stirred up a tremendous uproar throughout Yan Kingdom. Religions practically sprang into being overnight—not newly founded ones, but sects from certain Immortal abodes that immediately erected stone statues of the Venerable Immortal.
Their sources were not only the available records, but also the accounts of those involved.
"Don't make them so big!"
Lord Jiang, who had witnessed it firsthand, roared at the clay sculptors. "Do you have so much clay that you can eat it for meals? Why do you insist on adding those two lumps? I saw it perfectly clearly—they weren't there! Completely flat! You have to stay true to the original design!!"
"Uh..."
The craftsman looked indignant. "A little artistic embellishment should be normal, shouldn't it?"
Somehow, this minor issue ended up reaching the Emperor.
How strange.
A matter