A Lenda do Dragão Dourado

People often say there are no immortals in this world, but is that truly so? If there are none, have you never heard the saying: “Man seeks to become immortal, immortals follow the Dao, and the Dao follows nature”?

Before us stretches the only world that exists, vast and singular, divided into the nine continents. Upon these lands, sects, kingdoms, and noble clans stand side by side.

And what are these nine continents? The Central Continent, Ning Continent, Azure Continent, Heavenly Star Continent, River Continent, Abundant Continent, Vast Continent, Ancient Sage Continent, and the Monster Child Continent.

Beneath each continent lie various provinces, under each province numerous kingdoms, kingdoms split into counties, and counties into countless cities.

It is in the northern realm, in the Vast Continent, that our story begins, in the state of Qian, one of the five great nations under the jurisdiction of the Grand Unity Province.

In Shuiyun County, within the city of Qingning, lives the Zhao family, a clan of cultivators.

A young master of this family sneezed. It was already eleven o’clock, and he shivered from the cold. For April, such chill ought not to be. Earlier that morning, he and the other youths of his clan had gone to fish and play in the cold river north of the city, hoping to temper their bodies with the frigid spiritual water.

Yet, the physique of a cultivator is unlike that of ordinary people. At eleven, he was already at the third level of Qi Refining; at twelve, his spiritual roots were tested: nine inches of wood