Not long after leaving the inn, Li Huowang once again arrived at the residence of the most powerful figure in all of Pi County—the government office, guarded by two stone lions and a large drum at its entrance.
This time, Li Huowang had no intention of sneaking in. Instead, he strode openly to the gate and asked the guards to announce his presence to the county magistrate.
Perhaps if someone else had tried this, they would have been dismissed as a troublemaking scoundrel. However, when Li Huowang—with two longswords strapped to his back, a copper coin mask over his face, and clad in a red Daoist robe—plainly stated that he could resolve the entire county's affliction of shrinking yang and yin, he was immediately invited inside with the utmost respect.
