Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Newly Promoted Ming Dynasty Captain Encounters Pudu Cihang

After transmigrating to the final years of the Great Wei Dynasty, he became a thousand-household commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard in the Northern Garrison. He had just used the System to raise his stats and break through to the innate realm, and was preparing to take up his post in Youzhou, when he stumbled upon a ceremony to appoint the Imperial Preceptor.

The young monk seated on the high platform was named Pudu Cihang: a centipede demon with thirteen hundred years of cultivation.

The System panel clearly showed his strength as a question mark. Zuo Dao took one look and felt a chill run down his back.

As soon as the ceremony ended, Pudu Cihang's minions chased him outside the city and tried to recruit him. When he refused, two human-skin puppets crept into the inn that night and tried to drag him away by force. He barely escaped after cleaving one apart with a single stroke.

Zuo Dao and his subordinates made for Youzhou through the night. As soon as they arrived in Guobei County, they caught the magistrate letting his constables use innocent civilians to fraudulently claim reward money. After dealing with the matter, someone deliberately lured them into Black Mountain:

Lanruo Temple.

The moment he saw the temple's name, Zuo Dao knew there was no escaping it. Pudu Cihang's shadow still loomed behind him, while the demons and monsters of Youzhou's hundred thousand mountains already blocked the road ahead.

With nowhere left to retreat, he would use his embroidered spring saber to carve out a way to survive.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.