Zhao the Scholar's real name is Zhao Yixuan. Last year, he went to the Celestial Sword Sect seeking immortality but was turned away. Everyone in town watched as he knelt outside the mountain gate for three days and three nights, only to be driven down the mountain in the end.
Many others had similar experiences, but after being rejected, none stayed, all leaving in anger and disappointment. Only Zhao the Scholar, frail and wearing tattered clothes, remained silently, setting up a stall to copy books in town.
No one knew where this scholar, who made a living by writing letters and copying books for others, came from; or why he took a chance at the Celestial Sword Sect; or why, after being rejected, he neither left nor begged persistently at the mountain gate but only gazed silently at Mirror Mountain in a daze.
