After continuous years of battle, Yunqin’s commoners needed a period of peace to rebuild their homeland. Meanwhile, many cultivators on Lin Xi’s side also suffered considerable injuries in Thousand Leaf Pass, needing time to nurse their wounds.

That was why this entire autumn seemed extremely peaceful.

Autumn passed, winter came. All of Yunqin Empire welcomed another new year.

Flourishing Heights’ Sheep Head Feast still hadn’t been decided, yet a fat sheep specially picked among Mountain Yin Province’s local villagers had already been sent over together with a board with the four characters ‘Thousand Year Noble Spirit’.

Everything Flourishing Heights did during the last winter not only won the admiration of all of Yunqin’s people, it also made everyone in Mountain Yin Province feel glory.

When Mountain Yin Province’s board was delivered to Flourishing Heights’ Cheng Family, within a South Tomb Province town, a tottering older woman, under the support of a young granddaughter, arrived in front of an Auspicious Virtue rice shop. She produced a cloth parcel from within her pocket, and then began to unwrap it layer by layer.

Inside the cloth parcel, apart from the silver pieces this older woman used to purchase rice, there were also...