The Tale of Wusu the Rascal

Read three chapters and you'll be hooked. Hilarious jokes nonstop!

Jiang Shian, a carefree young man from Wusu, began as someone who could only shake a tortoise shell and tinker with the Six Lines of Divination. After a fateful encounter in a dream, he embarked on a path of metaphysics. The road is difficult and full of twists, but luckily he has three close brothers he's been hanging out with for four years, a wealthy senior apprentice, and even a host of immortals by his side. This is their extraordinary tale, told in a light, lively style full of jokes and running gags, with cleverly constructed logic and real elements of traditional culture. It draws on Buddhist and Daoist knowledge and classics, feng shui, metaphysics, and destiny-reading, while incorporating the northeastern Chinese tradition of spirit mediums. Rather than focusing on the many spirit-medium practices common in books today, it tells the story from the perspective of companionship. Along the way, it also weaves in Eastern and Western philosophy, the principles of the I Ching, reflections on life, and more...