Zhe Yan, the first phoenix born when heaven and earth were created and a carefree High God of the Ten-Mile Peach Blossom Grove, hadn't even finished a pot of peach blossom wine when he was tossed into a completely unfamiliar world. Here, spiritual energy was scarce, metal boxes raced through the streets, mortals wore strange clothes, and people kept saying they were going to “call the police.”
With all his immortal aura going to waste and most of his magic suppressed, Zhe Yan had no choice but to call himself a “foreign alchemist” and tag along with the naive young man named Wu Xie, treating it as a chance to travel and clear his mind.
Who knew the journey would be full of such undignified troubles? The corpse beetles in the Seven-Star Lu Palace? Nothing compared to the ferocious bees in his peach grove. The forbidden woman in the underwater tomb? One soothing song sent her on to the afterlife. The illusions in the Bronze Tree? A perfect chance to strengthen the children’s resolve. Seeing Zhang Qiling covered in hidden injuries, he casually helped heal him. Seeing Wang Pangzi’s greed, he gave him a few “stones” that could be exchanged for money. Xie Yuchen was a shrewd schemer, and Hei Xiazi a carefree rogue, but to Zhe Yan, they were both amusing young fellows.
Sipping his peach blossom wine, he judged Queen Mother of the West’s elixirs to be “evil, unorthodox magic,” and laughed that the mechanisms in the Zhang Family’s Ancient Building were “far too artless.” It was only when they reached the Bronze Gate that he sensed the laws of this world beginning to collapse.
Zhe Yan turned to look at the companions who had traveled with him all this way and smiled. “The scenery here is lovely, but it is no true home. Why not come home with me?”
His true phoenix form appeared, tearing open the void. When Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling, Wang Pangzi, Xie Yuchen, and Hei Xiazi awoke in the Ten-Mile Peach Blossom Grove, surrounded by drifting petals, and saw Zhe Yan offering them peach blossom wine, they knew a warm, joyful new chapter full of chaos had only just begun.
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