Dragon-Tiger Mountain stood in Shangqing Town, twenty kilometers southwest of Eagle City in Jiang Province. It was a renowned Daoist mountain.
Yes, Daoist priests existed in this world of magic, and they were famous throughout the country.
Their mastery of Light Element and Lightning Element magic was astonishing, drawing countless people to observe and learn.
Many more hoped to join the Celestial Master's Mansion, taking their already powerful Lightning Element further and transforming their supposedly useless Light Element.
Some even claimed that Einstein had not created the Light Element, nor had Franklin discovered the Lightning Element. Both had been created by the Celestial Master's Mansion long ago!
In fact, many across China agreed. After all, plenty of clans had histories stretching back a thousand years; the outside world simply knew little about them.
The first Daoist Celestial Master, Zhang Daoling, had been born in the thirty-fourth year of the Western Han dynasty.
By around forty, Celestial Master Zhang had become renowned throughout the Shenzhou Continent for his formidable Light Element and Lightning Element magic.
The way those elements had been used back then was entirely different from today. In his hands, the Light Element had been almost miraculous, to say nothing of the Lightning Element, the strongest of the elemental magics.
Although the records did not specify Zhang Daoling's exact strength, everyone believed Celestial Master Zhang might have been a Forbidden Curse Mage. The reason hardly needed explaining.
After breaking through to the Forbidden Curse level, Celestial Master Zhang went to Shu and founded his own organization, Orthodox Unity Daoism, which later became the Celestial Master's Mansion.
Its guiding creed—"Sweep away Demon Beasts and protect life"—attracted many young mages, who flocked to join the Celestial Master's Mansion. Daoism flourished in those days.
From then on, the leader of the Celestial