Counting off on my fingers, then checking the electronic calendar in the lower-right corner of my Windows XP desktop, I discovered that today happened to be the first anniversary of Immortal Road's publication. I began writing it on December 4 last year, then officially uploaded it on the sixth. My prose gradually matured along with Immortal Road, and I grew a year older with it. Coincidentally, after a few setbacks, today I also began publishing Immortal Road on Taiwan's Shuopin book site. It really was a coincidence. I hadn't deliberately arranged it, yet exactly one year later, I made this decision. Just as, last time, when I wrote about the Mid-Autumn Festival in the story, it happened to be the eve of the festival itself. These little things are rather amusing.
Well, I won't dwell on my feelings. Read on, everyone. If you have time, I hope you'll help by clicking here. Many thanks!
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The Origin Celebration, the grand triennial gathering of the Daoist Order, thus ended with an episode no one had expected.
The next day, after a cool autumn rain swept through Mount Luofu, the fellow Daoists who had come from afar began leaving the mountain one after another.
Although the visitors departed in succession, the once-quiet Four Seas Hall on Thousand Birds Cliff grew livelier instead. After witnessing the performance of Xing Yan, Qiong Rong, and the others on Flying Cloud Summit, the elders of the three orders had instructed their outstanding disciples to discuss Daoist arts with the young hall master. Thus, over the next few days, Lin Xu, Hua Piaochen, Zhuo Bihua, and others frequently lingered on Thousand Birds Cliff during the daylight hours, exchanging their understanding of the arts.
Zhuo Bihua of the Wondrous Radiance Palace, champion of this Origin Celebration, had