When the protagonist Wu Fan was born, the yellow dog in the family suddenly spoke in human language: "The disaster star comes to the world, and the blood moon reflects on the door." The brains of 108 live chickens in the village were sucked out by weasels overnight, and their corpses were placed in a Bagua formation on the wall of Wu's courtyard. The blood letter left by the mysterious beggar prophesied: "If you don't worship Xuan Kongzi of Jiuding Tiesha Mountain as your teacher before the age of sixteen, you will be devoured by the five immortals and die."
