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The Guan Residence stood on the edge of Liuyang's Southern City, a sprawling estate with landscaped gardens.
This was a characteristic of this world. Even recluses rarely lived alone in the mountain wilderness, in places few people visited, because those were the territories of demon creatures. They would not understand a human's desire to cultivate in seclusion from the world; all they knew was that you had come to seize their territory.
Thus, one could only practice the greater reclusion of hiding at court, which was really just a matter of having no alternative.
A pavilion stood in the residence's rear garden, several zhang high. Anyone standing inside could take in all the surrounding scenery. It was where Immortal Guan contemplated the mysteries of heaven. At present, however, the old immortal was receiving guests in the front hall, while a guest leisurely played the zither in the pavilion.
Daoist Zhan still wore a light veil over her face, concealing her grace and beauty, but the ethereal notes of her zither, drifting in and out of hearing, seemed somewhat at odds with the festive atmosphere throughout the residence.
She had to come, because Immortal Guan, a local power in Liuyang, wielded considerable influence among the rogue cultivators here. As one of the Daoist Sect's senior figures