Reborn as a Northern Song civil official, all I do is sit in the Hanlin Academy and recite Daoist scriptures.
The powerful call me useless and send me to suppress bandits, expecting me to die.
A rebel king's demonic army sets the city ablaze, and our forces are on the verge of annihilation. I quietly pull out my brush. The technique I realized while watching the stars yesterday seems... tailor-made to counter you.
In my first battle, three hundred old and infirm men rout three thousand bandits!
In my second, I expose the Demon Lord's weakness with a single sentence, sending him fleeing in panic!
When I return home with an achievement beyond compare, I find my entire family slaughtered, leaving me with a sea of blood and a score to settle!
Fine. Very well!
You think I only know how to win people over with virtue?
Once I create the Nine Yin Manual, this martial world will be due for a bloodbath!
Tong Guan treats me like a pawn, the Jin fear me like a demon, and the Five Great Masters honor me as their teacher.
Many years later, atop Mount Hua, I carve the final secret of fate into the rock and smile at Wang Chongyang:
"I've had my fill of this martial world."
