Old Fool

In the celestial empire, during the ninth year of the Mandate of Heaven,
Chaos reigns across the land, and the people suffer.
The royal governance collapses, and western barbarians with their pantheon of gods invade.
New warlords arise, claiming territories; the Taiping rebels wreak havoc, leading to widespread misery.
Calamities like floods, droughts, earthquakes, sandstorms, tornadoes, acid rain, blood moons, and meteor falls occur in succession.
Countless demons roam, strange beings thrive, spirits mingle with the inexplicable, and mysterious phenomena arise.
In these dark and tumultuous times, Tao Qian opens his eyes to find himself about to be beheaded at the vegetable market...

Longevity Chronicles

Tao Qian immediately noticed that this creature called Jiao'er was different from the naive nature of other mountain spirits and ghosts in Hidden Valley.


Perhaps due to its natural proclivities and too much contact with the human world, it had picked up some crafty, shifty tendencies.


However, this wasn't necessarily a bad thing; at least from its aura, Jiao'er didn't appear to have committed heinous acts like cannibalism, nor had it mutated and fallen.


After thinking for a moment, Tao Qian asked several questions directly, pertaining to the current political changes within Southern Yue and Fumin.


He had already left Southern Yue and obviously had no intention of getting involved.


But given his past entanglements with Southern Yue, not to mention having recently sent Master Xiao to Guanyin Temple,


Chapter 122: Emperor's World Suppression, Daughter Spring Water