The Prison-Guarding Night Watchman

[Transmigration] [Confucianism] [Daoism] [Buddhism] [Demons] [Body Tempering] A contest between five transcendent powers. Zhao Zheng, a constable of the Divine Capital Prefecture, is falsely accused and thrown into prison. His father dies horribly in a case involving missing tax silver, while Zhao Zheng is made the scapegoat. On the brink of death, the soul of a modern special police officer awakens within him. Armed with the Prison-Subduing Staff his father left behind, he uses modern investigative thinking to crack the case: there is no demonic aura at the explosion site, records of saltpeter and sulfur have been tampered with, and the chain of evidence points straight to collusion between officials and merchants. He uses combat skills to take on body-tempering prisoners, trains his body with the Basic Skin-Tempering Art, and finally exposes the truth in court: the so-called “demonic fire explosion” was a plot involving swapped sodium metal. His name cleared, he is nevertheless swept into an even deeper whirlpool. Zhao Lie, commander of the Night Watch, recognizes his abilities and invites him to join the extraordinary law-enforcement agency. Combining modern investigative techniques with body-tempering staff skills, Zhao Zheng creates “investigative staff techniques”: reading muscle movements to predict attacks and using the Prison-Subduing Staff to target weaknesses in an opponent’s blood and qi. He leads a special investigation team to solve one strange case after another. In the case of murdered Confucian students, he sees through an attempt to frame the demon race. During the tax-silver escort battle, he takes on the Iron Army Sect’s peak flesh-tempering experts. When he breaks through to a new realm, he suddenly understands how to “channel blood and qi through the staff.” The Prison-Subduing Staff drinks blood and gains a spirit, transforming from a heavy weapon of black iron into a spiritual divine weapon. When the allied demon and barbarian armies from the north and south invade, Zhao Zheng is appointed commander in the face of the crisis. He devastates the barbarians with an avalanche at Yanmen Pass and kills a treasonous prince with his staff in the Golden Throne Hall. In the final battle, he burns his blood and qi to unleash “Prison-Suppressing Demon Seal,” perishing alongside the Demon Emperor and left with hidden injuries. He withdraws to the mountains, and the once-renowned “Prison-Suppressing War God” becomes a folk legend. Wherever the wind of his staff once blew, evil spirits scattered and ordinary people found peace.