I Just Became a Thousand-Household Officer, and Now I Hear This Place Is Liaozhai!

In the final years of the Great Wei dynasty, Zuo Dao transmigrates into this world and takes over his father's post as a Hundred-Man Commander.

Over the next three years, he applies himself diligently, earning cultivation points and advancing from the acquired realm into the innate realm.

Just as he's about to leave the capital and enjoy a comfortable posting as an outer prefecture's Thousand-Man Commander, he runs into the Great Wei Imperial Preceptor's investiture ceremony.

Pointing at the Imperial Preceptor, Zuo Dao asks, “Who did you say that was? Pudu Cihang? That giant centipede?”