Jing Yuan, the Divine General, rarely took up arms.
People said he shied away from battle, disgracing his title as general.
Yet such a serene, refined general turned out to be a perfect match for the Luofu, which handled trade and commerce.
The more peaceful a commercial hub was, the better.
Under General Jing Yuan's governance, the Luofu had enjoyed centuries of peace, and commerce had flourished.
But the general did, in fact, know martial arts.
The Xianzhou had a custom called the Child Selection Ritual, in which parents placed various toys around a young child to divine their future.
Picking up an abacus, for instance, meant the child would be suited to business.
According to rumor, General Jing Yuan had grabbed blades and swords as a child.
Sure enough, he had later joined the Cloud Knights and earned illustrious military honors.
Another rumor said that General Jing Yuan had once studied under the Luofu Sword Champion. But that champion's final years had been shrouded in mystery, and the story of their time as master and disciple had also been buried in the dust of history.
In short, all those rumors portrayed General Jing Yuan as a skilled martial artist who simply kept his abilities well hidden.
But to trusted confidantes like Fu Xuan, most of the general's martial prowess rested on Divine Foresight.
Divine Foresight was a Wight that accompanied General Jing Yuan.
Its full name was the Heavenly Lord of the Divine Firmament's Thunder Bureau, Supreme Commander of Thunder and Lightning, Pursuer of Demons and Purger of Defilement.
Divine Foresight, for short.
Divine Foresight had not originally been particularly powerful, only an ordinary Wight.
But Jing Yuan had devised a clever shortcut, pouring the power of the Path of the Hunt into Divine Foresight.
As an Emanator of