So not much here but I wanted to bookmark it a bit. May do a scene later thats a few touch notes of what went on on the year long walk that follows this.

The wind was still today. Venti thought to himself watching the goats graze in their pasture. There were no lessons in medicine nor the dabbling into generalized alchemy that the old man had started to surprisingly veer into last week. On days like these the world felt like it stood still. It was nice if not a little bit dull. He wonders what Alicia was up to... wherever she was. Ever since she had recovered, she made a habit of popping up for surprise visits every other week or so. Probably fighting some monster of the week or searching for some artifact or another to bring back home with her.
She did that a fair bit from what venti knew about her. Venti hoped she was okay.
He pauses as he looks up. Catching something he had never seen before. A group, a whole group of people were walking up the steps to the temple in the distance. They've never had a more then one guest before. Let alone ones armed. Almost immediately he's to his feet as he starts to jog back to the temple.

By the time he gets to the entrance. The guests were already inside. The door left ajar, it was easy to slip in behind them. He was met with five strangers. Their backs to him. Three in white robes and two others in armor. Guards they seemed.
The whole group though regardless of garb had their eyes locked on Zhon li as the man at there head. In slightly more fanciful robes then the other two speaks slowly, carefully.
"-Though we are honored you've decided to grace our temple in the interim. And grateful for your work in restoring it We do... need the temple now for the purposes naturally given to a temple. So we must ask you vacate it venerable one."

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So! Sadly it turns out I'm much more a ideas guy then I am a actual writing guy sadly. And I am very out of practice and not a very good writer. Still I managed to squeeze the metaphorical stone enough to get something of a prologue out for my Jumpers time in Generic Xianxia. I do wish we could still post PDFs that would make this a lot easier.

Prologue- Edited version

It was early evening, the sun had just fully fallen beneath the mountain peaks as Jumper dragged himself into the small temple on the edge of Ordin village. Rain was falling down in sheets. The village wasn't big enough to have its own inn, but one of the villagers had pointed him in this direction after asking if there was anywhere he could stay. The temple had fallen into misuse in recent years.
but any roof between man and rain would do at this point. Jumper pushed open the heavy wooden doors. A large hall draped equally in evening darkness and dust both. "Splendid" the traveler sighs in relief, sinking down onto a bench. Water dripping off the weather beaten man as he peers across the temple. Engravings in the stone walls revealed themselves slowly as his eyes adjusted to the dark. A trio of otherworldly women lined the center wall of the hall. Garbed in red, green and blue. He wasn't familiar with the faiths of this world. but Jumper felt it safe to say they were gods of some kind.
The traveler as far from home as he was makes a small prayer to whatever would hear to be forgiven for this small intrusion, closing his eyes. Perhaps it was paranoia but he didn't need more enemies... and there were enough tales back home about spiteful gods in myth. That he'd prefer not to take his chances...and he was far from home indeed.