Five-Cent Special Effects in a Martial Arts World

Handsome, kind-hearted, sharp-tongued Daoist gong: Yun Qing

Highly skilled, spirited shou: Ye Mingfei

In his third year after transmigrating into a wuxia world, Yun Qing was meditating at his Daoist temple when he received a crippled version of the Villain Rehabilitation System. It offered no rewards, and the System could only cobble together five-cent special effects as his golden finger. Thus began his daily life of taming villains in the jianghu.

From then on, a Daoist named Yun Qing roamed the jianghu with two children in tow: a tiny novice monk and a tiny young gentleman.

Don't ask why a little monk was following a Daoist. Just call it fate!

According to reliable sources, the little monk looked just like Xin Yuan, the Shaolin Temple's chief disciple, who had recently gone missing. The little gentleman looked just like Shen Fuhua, the second son of the wealthy Shen family, who had recently run away from his arranged marriage.

Xin Yuan's master, the Shaolin abbot, Master Wuya, could only shake his head and sigh. Shen Fuhua's father, the rich Shen Cilin, kept his lips sealed.

They said Daoist Yun Qing was generous and devoted to justice, stepping in to help whenever he saw someone in trouble, no matter how small the helper. Everyone who had met him called him unfathomable, and even the two little ones by his side had become first-rate martial artists.

What a joke. No one believed it.

That was until his superhumanly strong and almost demonicly intelligent troop of little ones grew steadily, becoming the jianghu's most famous gathering place for illegitimate children. Then the Wulin Alliance Leader vouched for them, shocking the martial world for an entire year.

No one knew that when Wulin Alliance Leader Ye Mingfei came to see him, it was really to tell Daoist Yun Qing that helping the helpless was admirable, but he should stop using three-year-old child laborers.

Unable to talk Yun Qing out of it, Ye Mingfei could only try to keep an eye on them. In the end, he successfully appointed himself head of the villain kindergarten.

One time, Daoist Yun went away for a while and returned with a new little one. Ye Mingfei silently stared at the newcomer for a long time.

“You look just like my dad, who's been dead for years!”

Ye Mingfei, former Wulin Alliance Leader and current little one: “…”

Blurb posted on June 14, 2025.

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