The Third Realm Artifact Cultivator with Brocade-Woven Prose

"An Open Letter to the Gentlemen of the Allied Army...

This humble one, Wuxiu, respectfully offers a few words before you all as a Rogue Cultivator.

I recently heard that the Allied Army had posted a proclamation, speaking with blazing rhetoric and ordering all Rogue Cultivators within and beyond the borders to report before the army within three days for registration and deployment. Those who refused would all be treated as enemy bandits. I read it over and over, yet could not bear to remain silent. Thus, as a Rogue Cultivator, I shall briefly present several points, merely to win a laugh from the gentlemen in the army.

The first laughable point is called 'drawing a circle on the ground and calling it a prison.'

The army gate seeks to gather the bodies of the four seas with a register no thicker than three inches. We Rogue Cultivators are rootless by birth, our whereabouts uncertain. Today we may be in the east, tomorrow in the west. We have no household registration to investigate, nor any sect to verify.

Now the army gate demands that we register ourselves. Do you intend to circle out land on paper and draw Rogue Cultivators into your military camp as well? I would like to ask one question: after registering and receiving orders, will we be paid a monthly salary? Will we be subject to military law? If not, what is the point of compiling this register? If so, would not our free bodies be wiped away with a single stroke? Is such calculation not laughable?

The second laughable point is called 'sending troops without a name.'

The army gate conceals everything beneath the four words 'unified deployment.' Yet we are neither soldiers of Wanxuan nor guests of the Dragon Palace. We are merely a