Episode 45: A Mountain of Hawthorns and a Lake of Lotuses (Part I)

Mount Longhu had been committed to Taoism for forty generations. Zhao Danxia, the current Grand Celestial Master, teaming with the Grand Libationer of Shangyin Academy, was Grand Maester, being in charge of the world's Taoist affairs and enjoying a reputation as first-grade sage minister. Unfettered Haven was a small sanctum on Mount Longhu, inhabited by an elderly Taoist, Zhao Xituan. Inside the sanctum, looking at a whole courtyard of shriveled hawthorns, the elderly Taoist could still manage to eat them. A teenager with dark yellow skin squatted in the courtyard, looking in a dilemma.