In the fields after noon, farmers sweated profusely, while hunters in the mountains ventured forth, bows slung on their backs.
"Listen, everyone, let me tell you of the bloody battle of Changfeng City... That hero Li Yu, his spear like a Red Thread, striking like a crimson python overturning rivers. His iron fists swung so swiftly that even the Changfeng City Wall crumbled, forcing even the Black Mountain Celestial King, with his overwhelming demonic power, to retreat thirty miles..."
Beside the old locust tree at the village entrance, in a small tavern, Jianghu Wanderers exchanged drinks, while the storyteller tirelessly recounted the embellished saga of the Battle of Changfeng, earning the applause of the warriors, who generously offered their money. Yet, in the story, that legendary figure of the Three Counties was renamed Li Yu and no longer called a great hero.
