Urban Martial God

After searching for decades, Xu Muping, the current master of the Panyuan Sect, finally finds an unprecedented martial arts prodigy capable of breaking through to the eighth level of the peerless Panyuan Art. He brings the “prodigy,” still wearing split-crotch pants, into his sect in exchange for a Transformers toy, beginning more than a decade of teaching by bribery. It starts with model toys, then electric toys, then a game console, a bicycle, and an acceptance letter from a university... and finally, a girlfriend.

With the acceptance letter his master procured for him in hand, our protagonist, Li Yan, boards a train for another city. Only then does he learn that in this modern urban society, the so-called jianghu, martial world, and aristocratic clans are not confined to the pages of wuxia novels. Without even realizing it, he has already become part of that world.

The Panyuan Art emphasizes fundamentals and defense, offering almost no offensive techniques. In an age that prizes aggression and attack, it is bound to be scorned and dismissed. How will Li Yan, who has only just begun learning the Panyuan Art, leave the experts and grandmasters stunned? And when he finally meets the girlfriend his master, Xu Muping, supposedly arranged for him, he discovers to his astonishment that she is actually...