Big Deals in the Martial World

At thirty, Wan Sanqian lives like a speck of dust on the loess slopes of the 25th world. His parents are gravely ill, bedridden in a leaking earthen house; after his three brothers split up the family, all he has left is half a mu of poor farmland. At thirty, he still can’t afford to marry, and the neighbors’ jeers cut him to the bone. Then, during spring plowing, his hoe breaks. He digs with his bare hands until they’re covered in blood, and his fingertips brush against a cold iron box. The moment the “Myriad Worlds Trading System” activates, he hears two worlds calling to him.

In Huayin Town, in the Jin Yong universe’s “Smiling Proud Wanderer tribe,” he becomes the owner of a wonton shop who owes five taels of silver. His master is He Sanqi, the “Wonton King” of Yandang Mountain, and he has a “Black-Iron Tier Treasure Bowl” that can hold ten thousand jin of goods at once. The System even gives him an absurd talent: “Reeking of Money (Early Stage),” which can turn anything within three zhang into copper statues. When he takes this thing back to the 25th world and auctions it, it becomes his first lifesaving fortune!

He sets his sights on the Huashan Sect, a real “gold mine.” He trades fresh vegetables from the 25th world for the Huashan disciples’ basic inner cultivation, and his homegrown medicinal herbs for Ning Zhongze’s healing remedies. Even Yue Lingshan drops by the wonton shop every day to mooch “novel candy” (actual fruit drops). Having figured out Yue Buqun’s ambitions, he tricks Lin Pingzhi into giving him a lead on the Evil-Resisting Sword Manual, then sells it to Yue Buqun as a “foot in the door.” He even deliberately shows off his “Copper Statue Technique,” leaving the “Gentleman Sword” in awe and wary of him from then on.