This is cursed. I messed up today's chapter again; the afternoon one should have been Chapter 152 (˃⌑˂ഃ).
The forest was deep and secluded, its vegetation lush.
Lin Ke, Jingang, and Minister Qi appeared there.
"So this is the Ten Thousand Mountains?" Lin Ke looked around curiously.
"To be precise, this used to be part of Cloud Dream Marsh," Jingang stepped forward to explain.
"But in the Dawn of Antiquity, a Dragon King in Cloud Dream Marsh raised a great flood. In his fury, the great sage Liezi moved the Ten Thousand Mountains here from the Southern Barbarian Lands and crushed that Demon Dragon to death beneath them."
He moved the Ten Thousand Mountains here?
That Liezi was one fierce fellow!
"Haha, this is indeed the heart of Cloud Dream Marsh, the Ten Thousand Mountains." Minister Qi laughed as well. "Some also call it the Ten Thousand Isles!"
As he spoke, Minister Qi looked at Lin Ke. "Boy, would you like to try being an Island Lord?"
"An Island Lord?" Lin Ke's eyes lit up. "How do I do that? What paperwork do I need?"
"The paperwork is killing one minor demon of the Third Realm." Minister Qi rubbed his chin. "Those scholars all turn their noses up at being a Mountain King. Why do you look so excited?"
Turn their noses up at being a Mountain King?
Why would they?
Lin Ke felt rather helpless. Once again, it came down to the difference in how the two worlds saw things. There was nothing he could do about it.
In his previous life, if someone offered you an island or a mountain, would you turn it down?
Of course not!
But here in the Great Wei Sacred Dynasty, scholars looked down on it, considering it taking to the wilderness