Chapter 35: Shen Mozhi
Shen Moyan sat in the hotel room, listening to Lu Jiuyuan tell the story from a thousand years ago. Shen Mozhi was a Tang Dynasty Taoist, a prodigy of the Maoshan sect. By thirty, he'd already reached the Master level. His duty was to guard that well on Mount Qingcheng—the well that held an ancient demon sealed at the bottom, the Taoist community's greatest secret. But Shen Mozhi made a mistake. He fell in love with a woman. That woman was a demon—a fox demon with five hundred years of cultivation. They loved each other, ran away together, were hunted by the Taoist community. In the end, to protect that woman, Shen Mozhi jumped into the well himself. "What happened to the fox demon?" Shen Moyan asked. "Died." Lu Jiuyuan said. "Killed by the Taoist community. But before she died, she w
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