The Locust Flower Nation was a small and barren nation in the north, and everyone in the imperial court, from the top to the bottom, was poor. In fact, they were so poor that the emperor couldn't even dispatch officials to worship and give offerings to the mountain gods of the Five Mountains on time. Because of this, there eventually arose the saying that officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Revenue didn't enter the mountains.0

Perhaps due to the imperial court showing a lack of respect for the Five Mountains, with this problem being exacerbated by the lack of temples and shrines and worshippers in the regions, there were often demons and fiends causing trouble in the mortal cities and towns of the Locust Flower Nation. This led to many spiritual masters and eminent monks from different nations travelling around the Locust Flower Nation to rescue its citizens from catastrophe and hardship. 0

However, these capable individuals who were especially popular in the regions never entered the residences of true nobles and officials in the nation. In the end, they decided to directly avoid the capital of the nation altogether, lest they be treated poorly and given the cold shoulder.0

On this day, a scholar in white and wearing a bamboo hat handed over his passport and entered the city located on the border of the Locust Flower Nation and the Silver Screen Nation. After wandering around the city for a while, he sat down on his bamboo case on a bridge located near a market, munching down on a spring onion pancake that he had purchased just then. Along with the local residents and some traveling merchants engaging in small business, he listened...1