White Cloud Purple Reed.
This was the residence of a legendary figure.
White Cloud Pavilion, the Flame Martial Empire's renowned master of Qi Reading; the stories about him had long since become legends, relished and recounted by countless people.
When it came to residential Feng Shui, White Cloud Pavilion was hailed as the finest under heaven, unrivaled in his age.
"For warfare, consult Dongfang; for the home, consult White Cloud."
These were two exceedingly conceited statements White Cloud Pavilion had made himself.
Their meaning was obvious: when it came to residential Feng Shui, even Marshal Dongfang, likewise famed throughout the world for his Qi-Observing Art and whose might shook all beneath heaven, was no match for him!
A passing traveler through the mortal world, a man of the Purple Palace and Heavenly Court above the clouds.
Within his heart, heaven and earth were settled; with his hand, he stirred the mortal world's rise and fall.
The first time White Cloud Pavilion intervened, it was for the Fu Lineage of Capital City; it was said that an ancestor of the Fu Lineage had once shown him the kindness of a meal while he wandered the mortal world.
Thus, when the Fu Lineage fell into decline, White Cloud Pavilion took the initiative to intervene, allowing it to leap from a second-rate lineage to a first-rate one in a mere forty years.
Even now, its influence was still expanding, its momentum not yet exhausted.
His second intervention that same year allowed the Kong Lineage, which had already been nearing ruin, to rise against the tide; literary giants and battle commanders emerged from the lineage one after another, restoring its reputation to its peak, where it remained to this day.
His third intervention was for the Gu Lineage. Back then, surrounded by powerful enemies,