Library

This is the best of times, when qi training and machinery go hand in hand, and gunpowder and talismans and seals are used together; this is the worst of times, where imperial power and scholar-bureaucrats co-rule in temples, and good and evil are rampant in the rivers and lakes... Where there are people, there are disputes, and where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. When going out, who has ever thought that once entering the rivers and lakes, it is as deep as the sea; who has ever thought that the rivers and lakes are the world!