Within the heavily pouring Central Continent City, there was a simple and crude courtyard.

Sat within a hall in this courtyard were an elder and a youngster.

The elder had a blanket covering his knees, his eyes a bit muddled, his face full of black age spots. From time to time, he would cough, the noise coming out of his chest sounding like a workshop ventilator. However, despite this being the case, his face still looked rather vigorous.

This elder whose clothing was simple and unadorned, home also extremely destitute, was precisely an important Yunqin statesman, Justice Sector Imperial Censor Jiang Rui.[1]

The youngster who sat on the other side of him was precisely the umbrella maker Wang Buping who followed him out of East Port Town.

“A few years ago, Religion Sector’s astronomical observatory already noticed that an entirely red sinister star flashed past the sky. Soon afterwards, there were cave barbarian movements behind Dragon Snake Mountain Range. At the time, his majesty deemed this matter was too strange, that there were definitely sinister things at work, stating that the cave barbarians in Great Desolate Swamp had a fiend ruling them.” Jiang Rui finished a bowl of medicinal soup, his expression rather bitter as he looked at Wang Buping. “From then on, my Yunqin has never been too peaceful. Wenren rebelled, the crown...