The master of the Ice Wheel Palace gave the boy a new name, like all his senior brothers—a name of the moon: D…
The master of the Ice Wheel Palace gave the boy a new name, like all his senior brothers—a name of the moon: Dan Lunzi, meaning "Crimson Wheel."
The moon is the essential foundation for all who practice cultivation in this world, and the core of the Ice Wheel Palace's teachings.
The silent Dan Lunzi was obedient, diligent, and earnest. By day, he studied pharmacology intently in the alchemy room; by night, he gazed at the bright moon from the courtyard, lost in thought.
Within the vast ocean of scriptures, Dan Lunzi discovered a legend from a mysterious western land: using a special art, one could scoop the moon from water and obtain a rare, potent medicine.
Medicine. Dan Lunzi's fingers trembled as they traced the characters. If he had been faster, earlier back then... could he have found the formula to save his parents?
Dan Lunzi tried every art he had learned—by the alchemy pool, by the river, at the clear spring... but he could never lift the moon from the water.
His senior brothers laughed at his foolishness. Yet he only repeated the gestures toward the moon's reflection, trying again and again to scoop it up.