The Dragon Horse carriage descended to the ground. Fang Yun boarded it, and led by the convoy ahead, traveled three li to the city gates.
The citizens within the gates had voluntarily made way, standing on either side and craning their necks in anticipation.
Suddenly, the Dragon Horse stopped, and Fang Yun looked outside.
County Academy Lord Wen Gu appeared outside the carriage window. He cupped his hands to Fang Yun and said, "This subordinate greets Lord County Magistrate."
"Speak if you have something to say." Fang Yun looked at Wen Gu outside the window, recalling many events he had encountered in the Book Mountain Illusion Realm.
In the Book Mountain Illusion Realm, the first time Fang Yun had been injured was not far from Ning'an County. During the Palace Examination in the Book Mountain Illusion Realm, he had likewise served as acting county magistrate in Ning'an County.
This place, these people—they were both strange and familiar to Fang Yun.
They were familiar because he had experienced them in the Book Mountain Illusion Realm; they were strange because this was his first time truly arriving here. Moreover, many details of his experiences in the illusion realm had been illusory, like stories told by others. Much had been omitted, and some might even have been false. Only a few experiences had felt utterly real, as though he had been there in person.
Book Mountain was unfathomably wondrous, but it was not omnipotent. Like the School of Historians' River of History, it possessed countless tributaries. If one entered the wrong tributary of the River of History while cultivating the power of the History Way, it meant death.
Book Mountain merely deduced all that would follow based on some known circumstances of Ning'an County. Fang Yun personally experienced certain important events. As for