"My lord, please have some tea. This is Wanning Tea, a specialty of our Wanning Town. It may not have the benefits of the tea cultivators drink, but among ordinary teas, it is quite good."
Chen Miao lifted the cup and took a sip. "It is indeed good. But if you have something to ask, Master Fu, please come straight to the point."
Seeing Chen Miao cut straight to the chase, Fu Yun stopped hesitating.
He immediately rose, preparing to kneel before Chen Miao.
Chen Miao did not stop him, merely saying coolly, "Do you think I will help you just because you kneel?"
The chill in his voice left Fu Yun unable to go through with it.
Sighing inwardly, Fu Yun bowed instead. "My lord, please help me!"
Then Fu Yun explained his situation.
Wanning Town, where Fu Yun lived, was one of the towns surrounding Cangzhou Prefecture's Prefecture City. Although it fell within the protection of the city's grand feng shui formation, it was only on the outskirts.
Chen Miao had initially assumed Fu Yun would speak about ghosts appearing in the town, but he had guessed wrong.
What Fu Yun wanted to discuss was a Mountain God Shrine on a mountain outside Wanning Town!
Several months earlier, a few people had suddenly arrived on the mountain outside Wanning Town and begun building a Mountain God Shrine.
Word soon spread, but anyone openly building a Mountain God Shrine must have registered it with the Demon-Suppressing Bureau, so the townspeople thought little of it.
Afterward, the Demon-Suppressing Guards of Wanning Town did indeed inspect the mountain, but they took no action against the Mountain God Shrine.
With that, everyone felt reassured.
But what Fu Yun had not expected was that a month after the Mountain God Shrine was built,