In the busy streets of Qingmu imperial city of the Emarald Mist Kingdom, people can be seen walking, chatting, laughing.
The streets is full of street vendors, selling herbs, beast core, beast bones, beast skins anything related to them.
Emerald Mist Kingdom is known as the most beautiful kingdom in the Tianhuang realm. Emarald Mist is a land where nature and cultivator's coexist with each other.
The kingdom is built within an ancient forest said to be older then most dynasties. Endless green mountains, jade rivers, spirit lakes and must-covered valleys stretch as far as the eyes can see.
The landscape of this kingdom is known to be mist beautiful, endless emarald forests filled with ancient spirit trees.
Floating island hidden among the clouds. Crystals rivers flowing faintly at night. Mountains covered in year round green mist.
Spirit beast roam around freely under the royal protection. Gently spirit beast like rabbits, deers etc are banned from hunting.
Only dangerous spirit beast or wild animals who had yet to roam beast core are allowed to hunt in this place.
In this kingdom, every 3 out of 10 kid is born with wood spirit elements. Which make competition for the resources extremely fierce here.
Many of the kids who got failed to enter the imperial royal academy can go to the Nine Cauldron Pavillion.
If one look in the small alleys of this kingdom the life of those poor people aren't that bad, as long as one can move around.
The land of this kingdom never let anyone die from hunger. But still sometime death happen from hunger.
Shi Zhenyue, is an old man in his early seventies. But still is quite energetic man who love little kids.
Being orphanage and surviving on streets with nothing but begging. He would curve small arrows to sell or hunt in the forest.
His talent of forging things were discover by a blacksmith, who took him under his care. By learning how to forge iron.
He could make living for himself. But knowing how hard it's for streets rats to survive on street.
He build a small coutyard where anyone can leave there newborn. Not on empty, cold streets to die.
He will take care of those kids till they turn four year old. Then he will start teaching them ways to earn money.
So, they can survive even without his help. After they undergo spirit root checking, they had to start paying rent to him.
He always say, nothing is permanent in this world, specially kindness.
He will scold and hit the young one when they resort to stealing from others as they find it easier to do.
He try his best to guide them on the right path, though filled with hardship is good and honest one.
When he turn forty he realised that he can't live forever. So, he take one boy as his successor of the shop.
When the boy grow up and married a young women. They start living next door of the old man courtyard.
The women, the young man married was name Ruo jian and had very good embroidery skills.
So, she will teach the young girls how to do embroidery as another way to make money. She's kind and gentle women never raising her voice.
She and her husband had four kids, whom he teach his skills. But still when it's turn to hand over the blacksmith shop.
He still chose the boy he had teach his skills from the batch of orphanage. The old man shi zhenyue, had great skills.
He's also very good at forging weapons using the beast bones, which he also teach to his student who later teach to his student.
Whoever take over the blacksmith shop also had to responsible for taking care of any abandoned newborn in the whole Kingdom.
At first few year of his life, when he had formed the tiny orphanage. Not many people knew about it.
So, still many newborn abandoned kids died on the streets. Later, everyone know if you find an abandoned child, either you can adopt it or leave it at shi clan.
The whole shi clan is made up of orphans who were taken care of in there early year of life. Shi clan is not very holy place.
They just offer a place and food for very young one who can't take care of themselves and had to relay on others.
When they had grow up little bit, either they leave the orphanage or pay little rent to continue living there.
But they had to leave the orphanage even if they want to or not when they turn sixteen or some people will continue living there.
This create the problem of crowding in already very small house. That why everyone had to leave the orphan when they turn sixteen.
Inside the orphanage young girls can be seen seating in circle learning and doing embroidery.
These small piece of work can be sold in the cloth shop for few copper coins without any problem as long as the design is neat and clean.
As for the boys, either they sell firewood to various restaurants or blacksmith shop, where there is continuous demand of firewood supply.
A girl around nineteen or twenty can be seen walking in the alleys towards the shi clan orphanage.
She's dress in green robe with white cloud pattern on the cuff of sleeves and a golden cauldron can be seen embroidered on the front of the robe.
The girl hair are tied up in simple bun, her body emit faint smell of herbs. She had round face and chubby cheeks making her look adorable.
Her whole attire is simple but no one dare to mess with her. As her green robe had pattern of Nine Cauldron Pavillion, which mean she's member of this sect.
This girl name is shi Zixuan, she join Nine Cauldron Pavillion fourteen years ago and is in 7st stage of qi condensation.
She usually visit the shi clan every five years and provide them with money. She's well liked in the clan.
As she's few of the girl from the shi clan who manage to join one of the major sect, she's highly respected in the clan.