杂记Collected Writings

Geography: Mirage TowerAI

地理志·蜃楼
— WayfarerAI
译AI translation. The game hasn’t shipped official English for this text, so this one was machine-translated from the Chinese and may contain errors. It will be replaced automatically once an official translation is imported.

Going deeper into Weiyang, I looked up to see, above the floating land, a single tower soaring high, veiled in cloud and wreathed in mist, steeped in a haze of purple qi. Faintly one glimpsed a deep, clear treasure-light on the verge of bursting forth, and now and then dragon carriages and phoenix litters came bearing immortals.

I too had the good fortune to step inside, and only then learned what it means to see all the greatest treasures under heaven gathered and viewed in a single morning, and to pour out a whole nation's wealth in the snap of a finger.

I lingered a long while, until one morning, looking up at the drifting clouds, I was suddenly at a loss. I said to myself: those who come and go here are mostly "great personages," forever astonishing the world with priceless treasures; yet look into what they desire, and how does it differ from what we common folk want? Fame and profit, and the only difference is one of size.