Why does the name seem familiar?

Qing Shan Empire, Mortal Realm.

Among the myriad powers that existed in the Tian Long Continent of the secular world, Qing Shan empire was famed for its military prowess and backings which ranked it among one of the top powers in the continent.

It was rumored that the founding emperor of the empire was a man of great virtue and valiance. His strength won the approval of immortal cultivators in heaven and he was taken there to become an immortal.

Of course, the current generation had no way of knowing what truly occurred in the past. However, no one could deny that the current empire and the laws which governed it could only exist because of his competence.

Due to this reason, Qing Shan Empire celebrated the 'founding emperor Remembrance Day' to mark the achievements of their founding emperor every third day of the second month in Lunar Calendar.

With only three days left till the festival, the streets of the Qing Shan City, the capital of the Qing Shan Empire was currently in a festive mood.

Locals were busy decorating their houses with traditional lamps, the workers were busy trying to clean the streets, while imperial soldiers were patrolling the areas to ensure the security of the capital.

Similarly, many merchants and stalls could be seen lined up in the area. They were using this opportunity to increase their sales and display their products to the customers.

These merchants could not help but grin when they looked at the sheer amount of profits they were making recently.

However, that grin froze immediately after they heard the shout of one half-naked man who was running towards the stall concentrated area.

"Run, that crazy woman is coming."

Almost as if those words had predicted a disaster, all the stall keepers and merchants immediately began to close their stalls in a hurry. Some even began running without bothering to bring their belongings.

"Heavens, why must you be so cruel. I have a 80 year old mother and a 6 year old daughter. Please, guide the lunatic elsewhere."

"I am going to sue the horoscope company. Didn't they say that today was going to be my lucky day. Turns out it was merely a scam."

"Dear father, I should have just stayed in the village to become a farmer rather than coming here to be a merchant. Your son is leaving you."

While the stall owners and merchants were cursing their fate and running like their life depended on it, the culprit was ignorantly eating meat skewers as she made her way to the commercial stall area.

"Geez, they really do overreact, don't they?" Fairy Xia muttered as she looked at the chaos in front of her.

All she did was kindly point out the fraudulent items they were selling and conveniently 'sampled' a few food items as payment.

Shouldn't they thank her instead? What a group of ungrateful brats.

She then turned her attention towards the left side of the street.

The owner of the gambling hall who was smiling at the plight of his competitor merchants immediately turned pale. He hurriedly ran inside his hall and closed the shop.

Seriously? It is not her fault that her luck is greater than mortals. Besides, didn't she help these guys by pointing out the deformities in their die cubes.

*sigh* Fairy Xia acted like her sect master when she looked at their actions. She had an expression like she was looking at a group of ungrateful kids who whine when they are in the wrong.

The merchants who happened to glance at her expression almost spurt a mouthful of blood.

Why the hell are you acting like you are the victim? Isn't it enough that you have destroyed our business. Do you intent on making us lose our life out of anger as well?

Just wait till the city guards arrive, then you can show your expression as much as you want.

It seemed like even gods had taken a pity at the plight of the merchants. A majestic voice rang out throughout the street.

"Who dares to make a disturbance here."

A heroic figure who seemed to atleast be a city guard captain made his way towards the center of the commercial area. Following him were a dozen other city guards.

Ordinarily, merchants and guards would have a cat and mouse relation unless they had connections.

This was because most merchants in the capital had a dirty secret or two which made the city guards detest them. Similarly, merchants also saw them as hypocritical busybody, who only targeted connectionless merchants and imposed them with higher taxes than imposed by the regime.

However, at this moment the merchants were looking at the city guards with tears and gratitude in their eyes.

"It's the city guards. They are here."

"Thank god. Finally, we can get rid of this lunatic."

The city guards who were used to seeing detest and indifference in merchant's eyes were baffled by the scene unfolding before them.

Had they entered the wrong area?

However, when they saw the haphazardly closed stalls in their surroundings, they realized that they were indeed in the correct area.

What caused them to react so strangely?

The leader of the city guard changed his line of sight to the area the merchants were avoiding.

Over there, he saw the silhouette of a beautiful female in white Daoist robe eating a skewer with an ignorant expression in her face.

The leader of the city guard stared at her for a while and froze. He moved two steps back and whispered to his deputy. "Isn't this the girl who tortured all of us in the name of training three days ago. The same one his majesty told us not to offend."

The deputy nodded. Currently, his face had turned pale and his back was drenched with sweat.

After affirming his guess, the leader of the city guards took further steps back.

He could neither offend her and neither could he do anything to her. At any rate, it seemed improbable that she would harm the citizens or the capital physically. Thus, it seemed wiser to have run out of here.

Although his voice was low, the city guards who had gone through fierce training could hear the exchange between their leader and deputy.

All of them understood their intentions.

It was time to have the 'tactical retreat'.

All of them took more steps back before marching out of the area. Their professional marching out made it hard to believe that it was their first time having the 'tactical retreat'.

The merchants were dumbfounded.

The fuck? Where did your heroic expression from before run off? What about your duties and responsibilities? Return our gratitude back to us, you bastards.

While the merchants changed their target of cursing to the city guards, fairy Xia was thinking about another matter.

"Strange, isn't the name of our gardener in the beast sanctuary also named 'Qing Shan'. What a coincidence for him to be named the same as this unmatched emperor."

........

Meanwhile in the cultivation realm,

An elderly man was trimming the grasses of the beast sanctuary. All of a sudden, he sneezed lightly.

"It seems like someone is remembering this poor old me. Now that I think about it, today is my birthday. Time passes so fast."

The old man sighed melancholily as he gazed at the sky.