Fantasy + comedy + passionate action + transmigration + bizarre cases + deduction + one heroine + no saintly do-gooder + no dumbing down
A strange case has surfaced in the capital. Three fifth-rank officials have had their organs removed, yet their bodies show no wounds. The coroner can't determine how they died. The case must be solved within seven days. Fail, and it's off with your head.
Lu Yuan thinks the whole thing is absurd. He's a PhD in criminal psychology who has just transmigrated to the Demon Suppression Bureau of the Great Yan Dynasty. He hasn't even figured out where the cafeteria is, and already he's been saddled with this deadly case. In his previous life, he interrogated serial killers; in this one, he interrogates monsters. The career change is a bit of a stretch, but at least in both cases he needs to get people talking. He questions talking corpses in the morgue, persuades a murderous gu master to surrender at Sanli Slope, and exposes a smiling killer at Chunxi Tower. The deeper he digs, the farther the investigation takes him, all the way to the imperial court and beyond the frontier.
This is a world of monsters, gu magic, and exotic Western Region incense that can kill people in their dreams. It also has a good emperor who sleeps only six hours a day, a cold-faced superior who never wastes words, a hot-tempered thousand-household commander who kicks him in the butt every day, and a tofu-selling big sister with a sharp tongue and a soft heart. Lu Yuan figures that although life after transmigrating is a pain in the ass, he can probably manage.
Then the Imperial Observatory studies the stars and discovers that the Imperial Star is in turmoil. The monsters of Liangzhou are stirring, while Japanese pirates in the southeast are watching like tigers on the prowl. The emperor personally orders the Chengping Martial Tournament to be held, selecting talents from across the realm to prepare for the coming chaos. Standing in the arena, surrounded by young geniuses from all the various provinces and sects, Lu Yuan realizes that he may not have transmigrated here just to solve cases.
This is the story of a PhD in criminal psychology who solves cases with his brains and fights with microexpressions in a cultivation world, then joins a group of geniuses to protect the human realm.
"It doesn't matter if we were born as cows or horses. Even though we are born as cows and horses, we should bow down and move forward. Even if a strong wind rises on the plains, we should brave the wind and travel thousands of miles."
The mist and rain on the road come in, and I think I am reading a good book