Like the story of the 108 sworn brothers in The Water's Edge or All Men Are Brothers, the story of Lady White has a prologue. The hero Xu Xian (許仙) was an immortal serving at the court of the Jade Emperor.

Zhenjiang (鎮江) is the capital of the province of Jiangsu on the southern bank of the Yangtze River. To its northwest, there is a mountain called Jinshan (金山) or Gold Mountain.

Nezha is one of the most popularly invoked Taoist deities in divination in Taiwan. The faithful gather at temples dedicated exclusively to him or others where he is among the gods and goddesses enshrined on his birthday, the ninth day of the ninth moon on the lunar calendar.

Nezha was an enfant terrible in every sense of that name. He took a forbidden dip in the East Sea to offend the Dragon King. In a fight with an East Sea army that ensued, he killed Prince Aoping (敖丙) of the Dragon King.

Five days after birth, Nezha was baptized in the East Sea, where the Dragon King ruled. The Dragon King wanted to punish the baby for intrusion, and a fierce fight ensued two days later, when the divine enfant terrible was only a week old.

"Yes, there's a tooth of the Buddha somewhere in the West (India),” Nezha (哪吒) said in reply to Abbot Xuanlu (宣律), who asked him to look for a holy relic and bring it back to China.

Nezha (哪吒) is made popular in the West by a DVD anime, “Nezha Conquers the Dragon King,” which has won an international award. He is a deity, popularly known as San Taizi (三太子) or Third Prince, because he was born the third son of General Li Jing (李靖), according to Taoist mythology.

A grateful Moginlin thanked Yama, the king of the Hades, again and again for absolving him of intrusion and trespassing into Hell out of filial piety and presenting him with a plate full of lotus leaves, which, when ingested, would get her out of the Sea of Duhkha (suffering).

It dawned. And Moginlin found himself awakened not in the small thatched house where he had cried himself to sleep but in a huge deserted graveyard.

A few days after he had started his life as a starving hobo, Moginlin came to a small forest. He was tired, needing rest.