The mortal world had the Flower Festival, while the cultivation world had the North Chu Yan Clan; naturally, Beiya Mountain City in Dragon Spring Prefecture was renowned throughout the world.
South of Beiya Mountain lay Lesser Liang City. Probably few people outside the prefecture had heard of it.
Built against the mountain, Lesser Liang Mountain City was not particularly large, with a population of only several hundred thousand, roughly half that of Beiya Mountain City.
In fact, many ancient legends in Dragon Spring Prefecture recorded that long, long ago, Lesser Liang had been the capital of an Immortal Dynasty.
Beiya Mountain, meanwhile, had merely been that Immortal Dynasty's ancient capital's "flower workshop," devoted to growing spirit flowers and spirit plants for the imperial family.
After the Immortal Dynasty fell, many Spirit Plant Masters and gardeners from the capital had brought all manner of precious spirit seeds south and settled in Beiya Mountain City, where their descendants flourished.
Thus, Beiya Mountain gradually grew and prospered.
Lesser Liang City, however, had gradually declined into obscurity, and its political standing in the Chu Kingdom, at court or beyond, was not particularly high today.
Near Lesser Liang City stretched a chain of deep mountains. The highest peak was called Shouyang Mountain, standing five or six hundred zhang tall and wreathed in clouds and mist year-round.
Over the years, many mysterious, strange tales had emerged from this place, so many young martial heroes of the Chu Kingdom would travel a thousand li to seek traces of immortals here.
At that very moment, at the foot of Shouyang Mountain.
In a grove, a mortal woodcutter sat resting on a bluestone beneath a tree, a pipe in his hand.
The old woodcutter was advanced in years, and his children had grown up. By rights, he should have