The Long Road of Cultivation, With Invincibility by My Side

My nature is like drifting clouds, my thoughts like the wind, roaming the four seas without a trace.

I gaze at the bright moon over the Eastern Sea, or ride a dragon over the Southern Sea.

I have ridden every tiger and leopard across the Three Mountains, and azure phoenixes follow me at the Five Peaks.

I seek neither riches nor rank, and I am nameless even in Yuxu Palace.

There is a peach tree in Xuandu Abbey. I pour myself three cups and wander as I please.

Gladly, I invite my Daoist friends to a game of chess. When bored, I sit on a mountain crag and listen to the deer call.

My idle verses startle heaven and earth. In stillness, the jade zither delights my heart.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.