Wen Hui, Crown Prince of Southern Qi, once founded the Mercy Hall, declaring: "Thus, the elderly may enjoy dig…
Wen Hui, Crown Prince of Southern Qi, once founded the Mercy Hall, declaring: "Thus, the elderly may enjoy dignified twilight years, those in their prime may devote their strength to society, and the widowed and disabled may find refuge."
Eight years ago, when the Dawn-to-Dusk plague devastated southeastern Kaifeng, disciples of Silver Needle rebuilt what remained of Apricot Village into the Mercy Hall, offering shelter and treatment to the afflicted.
Yet from its very inception, the hall suffered relentless assaults from the Aureate Pavilion, attacks that only worsened after the departure of Silver Needle's sect master, Sun Yuan, and reached their peak when the floods came two years past.
Whether the Aureate Pavilion seized the Silver Needle Note remains unknown, but on that night, the clinic was reduced to ruins, and every patient and physician vanished without a trace.