The traveler finds himself lost within the dells of the mountain while on his journey to the west on the seven-scaled road, seeking a nearby resting spot where he can take another look at his map while his mount replenishes his thirst at the riverside. Hoping on top of a massive boulder, the nomad fails to recognize that he is sitting on the boot of the great Zhao Tu, an ancient Shilon warrior whose body lay dormant for hundreds of years.

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Zhao Tu was a commander in the Shilon Army hundreds of years ago, a mortal who served Admiral Ox Lao during the Ren Dynasty (2613-3103RH), and was a prominent figure during the Monkhu invasion of Midora and Gaowong provinces (2848 RH). In order for the khagan of Monkhu to seize these provinces, Arku Khan had to capture the Shilon military outpost Shichang located among the mountainside and run by Commander Zhao Tu.

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After weeks of attempting to seize the outpost, the Khan was forced to resort to much more malicious tactics for his time was little as reinforcements were only days away. In the middle of the night, after a false retreat, the Khan's best archer fired at a sleeping patrol officer with an arrow tipped with a hallucination poison that would drive the victim into a barbaric frenzy. After they took the shot they waited outside while the patrol officer slaughtered the resting soldiers.

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 They seiged the gate with ease, but when they breached the walls they were met with the single hallucinating patrol officer who was not only still alive but still out for blood. With just a sword he cleaved through the Khan's men by the dozens, cudgels were broken and spears were snapped. He was finally brought down by the Khan himself when he impaled him through the chest with his sword. The Khan looked around to find no slain Shilonese officers in the outpost. "Where are you hiding your cowardly pawns?" Arku asked the defeated patrol officer. The patrol officer revealed himself as Commander Zhao Tu, who had commanded all soldiers to abandon the outpost and help evacuate the townspeople nearby while he guarded the fortress by himself. 

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Arku stood dumbfounded and realized for the first time since his rise to Khagan, he met a foe that was mighty enough to desperate him into resorting to the cheap tactics he swore to forbid. And even then he only narrowly defeated him and ended up fooled. The two shared a laugh, and Zhao Tu went back to sleep. 

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Arku Khan never took the blade out of his chest, for he never imagined another foe mighty or honorable enough to be graced by falling to the same blade as him. He burned the outpost but left the body to rest and made it a monument to signify to all that neither friend nor foe is incapable of cultivating his way of life in the Monkhu Empire.

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Over the years the remembrance of Zhao Tu grew along with his lifeless body, his armor, and the sword sunk into him, which has become one with the earth and has reached abnormal size. 

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