Nine Tripod City.0

This was the imperial capital of the Great Xia, and it had recently been laid to ruin.1

But over the past year, much of the city had been rebuilt, and it was newly prosperous and bustling.0

A stone statue now stood at the center of the city.0

It was nine hundred and ninety feet tall, and it depicted a tall, upright figure with his hands behind his back, as leisurely as if he were out for a stroll. He towered over the city like a god or immortal surveying the surrounding dust of mortality and all facets of creation.0

“This is the statue the imperial family built to honor Banished Immortal Su. They say it took over a thousand skilled artisans under the leadership of dozens of master artificers a month to build. It’s remarkably true to life, with the charm and grace of the real thing!”1

“I heard that the entire nine hundred and ninety-foot statue was refined from an extremely rare spirit vein. Furthermore, the Xia Emperor has issued a decree that every year, during mid-autumn, he’ll personally lead the imperial family to pay their respects to Banished Immortal Su’s statue to express their grat...2