Chu Feng transmigrates to a vast world where poetry is wielded in battle. Li Bai’s “The Knight-Errant” can conjure countless sword energies, while Du Fu’s “Ascending the Heights” can summon a mournful wind that sweeps across ten thousand miles. And Chu Feng? He’s a poor scholar whose engagement has been broken off and whose dantian has been crippled. At the engagement-breaking banquet, his former fiancée’s older brother, the greatest genius in the land, conjures a sword pavilion atop a ladder to heaven with “The Road to Shu Is Hard,” crushing the entire room with his presence and forcing Chu Feng to kneel and apologize.
“You good-for-nothing, you can’t even recite a complete seven-character line. How could you possibly be engaged to my sister?”
As everyone mocks him, the System in Chu Feng’s mind activates! [Host is in a situation of extreme humiliation. Unlocking the “Ancient Divine Speech” library!]
Faced with “The Road to Shu Is Hard,” Chu Feng smiles. Tang poetry? I’ve already mastered that! He slowly recites, “The sun and moon hasten on, never lingering; spring and autumn follow one another...” As soon as he begins “Li Sao,” heaven and earth change color, the sun and moon lose their light, and the spirit of Qu Yuan crosses time and space to shatter the other man’s sword pavilion and heavenly ladder with a single finger!
The entire crowd is stunned! “What is that? It’s even more magnificent than Li Taibai’s poetry!” “My heavens, he isn’t reciting a poem. Those are divine words!”
From then on, while others still congratulate themselves on comprehending a single Tang poem, Chu Feng uses the Classic of Poetry to sow the five grains, the Classic of Mountains and Seas to summon strange beasts, and the Dao De Jing to educate the masses.
“Your destination is only my starting point. I, Chu Feng, came here for one reason: to show you what true Chinese spirit really is!”
