"I've lived by the thrill of settling scores in the jianghu, and seen the bright moon over distant horizons, where people arrange flowers and break willow branches. I envy the free-spirited life of clouds and wild cranes. With three thousand paths stretching endlessly before me, whether I became an immortal or a demon, I had always hoped to roam without restraint and take in all the beauty of the world's mountains and rivers.
"But the mortal world can be filthy, and people hurry about, while beasts and birds are always in abundance. Yet even steeped in muddy wine and with blood staining my green robe, one thing never changes: the people I care about. They will appear, ever so carefully, in the only direction that is clean and filled with light."
The fifty-first Immortal Friends' Exchange Conference was held as scheduled. Sect leaders and masters were busier than ever.
The disciples of the Pure Heart Pavilion were doing practice exams, working through Huanggang workbooks, tackling Tianli exercises, or writing perfect-score essays. Young men and women were struggling on the front lines of the college entrance exam and had no time to share their experiences.
The Southern Moon Sect's leader was busy chasing performance targets, while his disciples were hooked on sugary soda, staying up all night gaming, shopping online, and ordering takeout from the sect.
The elders of the Wind and Moon House had just taken their English proficiency exams and were staying up late, working overtime and studying by lamplight.
Everyone's sources of income: exorcisms, fortune-telling, burning incense, praying to the gods, and smashing merit points.
The Immortal Friends' Exchange Conference was packed with people: debtors, debt collectors, exam crammers, people paying rent, delivery workers begging for five-star reviews... and, of course, people who had dropped dead from exhaustion.
Immortal World News: Shocking! The master of the Azure Heavens Temple, a top student whose score got him into A University, has died suddenly after staying up all night, working overtime, and pushing himself past his limits! Rumor has it he failed to send gifts to the underworld during the holidays, so the Black and White Impermanence, who never got their share of Li Ji's pumpkin cakes from the living world, held a grudge and seized their chance for revenge... Is this the death of conscience or the collapse of morality?
Lin Qian: "...
Theme: Lighthearted, a young knight's journey
