Ancient Luoyang, a city stretching for a thousand miles, was the most magnificent metropolis in the Human World.
Its walls were impossibly high. The Celestial Son sat enthroned within, and it was also home to Great Virtues like Lu Zi.
On the bluestone roads, vendors and porters hawked their wares. An old man carrying sticks of candied fruit swayed along, while children laughed and chased one another, some singing nursery rhymes. It was a scene of peace and tranquility.
"Did you hear?"
A woman with a grey cloth wrapped around her head clucked her tongue and said,
"The fighting between the Qi Kingdom and the Qin Kingdom is getting fiercer. I just heard from the storyteller that things in the Sui Region are brutal. There have been city massacres!"
"Really?"
Another person asked in astonishment.
"A massacre... Surely not?"
"Who knows? I heard the Sui Region angered Qi, and the Duke of the Qi Kingdom was furious. He defied pressure from Qin and massacred city after city..."
