After transmigrating to the Great Yan Dynasty to become the director of the Shanhai Garden, Lin Yue opens his eyes to bankruptcy: a peacock with a broken tail trembles in a corner, a skinny monkey can’t even get half a bite of spoiled rice, and the only sparrow is on the verge of death. He also owes the local bully, Zhou Hu, fifty taels. The door is creaking under someone’s kicks, and they’re one step away from tearing down the garden and selling the animals!
Just when all seems lost, a drop of blood from his fingertip instantly activates the ancestral Classic of Mountains and Seas. The dying sparrow transforms into the divine bird Bifang, whose golden flames send the creditors fleeing in terror!
He builds a “Simple Zhang’e Mountain Realm,” Bifang’s old home, to produce fire-patterned stones and replenish spiritual energy. Visitors who watch Bifang breathe fire can even grasp fire-control techniques, and beast tamers are clamoring to come guard the garden!
From then on, Lin Yue’s fortunes soar. He searches for redflame wood and digs up volcanic core stones to build a true Zhang’e Mountain. He raises an old tortoise into a Black Tortoise, turns an ordinary fish into a merfolk, and collects every strange beast in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. But trouble comes knocking too: the Beast-Hunting Pavilion lays a trap to steal Bifang, while the Beast-Taming Alliance vows to destroy Shanhai Garden for “breaking the rules”!
Lin Yue isn’t about to back down. He orders Bifang to unleash blazing flames, the nine-tailed fox to spread phantom mist, and Taotie to devour barriers. He’ll not only defend the garden, but turn this rundown place into a world of mountains and seas that the entire beast-taming world will envy. “You want to lay a hand on my beasts? First ask the divine creatures in the Classic of Mountains and Seas if they’ll allow it!”
