Although true talent was welcome anywhere, there was surely no place in the world that valued talent more than Mountain Beyond Mountain.
Mountain Beyond Mountain had originally been ruled by ten gods. But the two strongest among them had fought for ten thousand years over the position of supreme ruler, bringing incalculable losses to Earth Valley and Mountain Beyond Mountain. It was precisely because of this that the eight gods caught in the crossfire of that ten-thousand-year war decided to join forces. While the two strongest were severely wounded from slaughtering each other and trapped in a weakened state, they rebelled in one stroke, smashing their divine bodies into dust and ashes, then deeply sealing their divine consciousness beneath Mountain Beyond Mountain... After the two strongest fell, the eight evenly matched gods, themselves wounded in the great sealing battle, decided to divide up and govern Mountain Beyond Mountain's "Eight-Direction Worlds." At the same time, they brought in outstanding talent from Earth Valley, hoping to restore Mountain Beyond Mountain, devastated beyond recognition by the divine war, as soon as possible.
For ten thousand years, no matter their specialty or type of talent, anyone who came from Earth Valley to Mountain Beyond Mountain would be recruited without regard to convention.
The eight gods occupied the eight directions, and in this age of peace, the divine kingdoms they had established required vast numbers of talented people.
Thus, any talent who arrived here would see their worth rise a hundredfold, with every side scrambling to hire them.
Mountain Beyond Mountain's reception platform.
Old Spear, the reception envoy on duty, sighed all day long.
The rule here was that each year, the reception envoy representing each side could stand watch here for one month. During that period, all talents they received belonged entirely to the