Siheyuan: Game of Red Dust

Chapter 351: Master Wang and Zhang Chulan

After being expelled from Wudang Mountain due to his identity as the heir of Fenghou Qimen during the Luotian Dajiao, he chose to return to BJ's home. It was only then that readers learned that Wang Ye, who called himself a "poor Taoist priest", was actually the third son of Wang Weiguo of Zhonghai Group.

Because of Feng Hou Qimen, he was targeted by other aliens in the alien world. At this time, he also met Zhuge Qing and his group again in BJ. Finally, after a conversation, Wang Ye listened to Zhuge Qing's advice and decided to entrust Zhang Chulan, an employee of Nadutong, to help him resolve the alien threat.

Zhang Chulan's investigation later uncovers the man behind the threat, Wang Ai, one of the Ten Lords. Just as he's about to close in on the aliens spying on Wang Ye, he encounters a mysterious figure. Unaffected by Wang Ye's magical power, this figure, while in his Qimen formation, is unaffected by his "Luanjinwei" (a mysterious watchtower), unexpectedly defeats Wang Ye, calls him an "idiot," and disappears.

After questioning the perpetrators to no avail, they decided to use the Guiyuan Formation with the assistance of Zhuge Qing and Zhang Chulan to enter the inner scene together to find out the final mastermind behind the scenes, another of the Ten Lords - Chen Jinkui.

Finally, they used their own method to retaliate against the enemy, and had Tianjin Wei Xiaotaoyuan track Wang Ai and Chen Jinkui track their families in the name of Wang Ye and take photos to threaten them, thus stopping their surveillance behavior.

He once thought he had seen through the world and wanted to leave it, but after this incident, he felt that he was still too immature. He listened to Zhang Chulan's advice and decided to enter the world as a "walker". He also hired Zhuge Guan, Zhuge Sheng, and Zhuge Meng from the Zhuge family to be his bodyguards to protect his family.

After the events of the BJ arc, Wang Ye receives an envelope from a stranger containing photos of the group of people who had stalked him, severely injured. The stranger then asks him to answer a phone call. The caller assures Wang Ye that they have no ill intentions and that the injured people in the photos are not in danger of death. They simply want to vent Wang Ye's anger.

The caller explained that the reason he did this was because he and Wang Ye were both descendants of the Eight Great Skills, and what he inherited was the "Divine Machine Hundred Refinements" created by Ma Benzai, the "Three-foot Little Banshu", one of the Thirty-six Thieves.

The invitation over the phone came to a place called Biyou Village. At the same time, Zhuge Qing also came here in response to the invitation over the phone. The person on the phone was the village chief, named Ma Xianhong.

Temporarily settling in the village, Wang Ye explained to Zhuge Qing why he had previously wanted to defeat him, and expressed his apologies, saying that he had, in some way, changed his fate. However, Zhuge Qing remarked that if he hadn't been defeated at Longhu Mountain, he might not have experienced so many interesting things in his life. It was then that Ma Xianhong introduced them to a man named Liu Dang, a devoted martial arts practitioner. Ma Xianhong asked Wang Ye to help him defeat him.

After Wang Ye fought with Liu Dang, he discovered that he was not an extraordinary person at all, but just an ordinary person obsessed with fighting, and there was no such thing as "qi". After Wang Ye questioned Ma Xianhong's intention, Ma Xianhong brought the three of them to a place.

Here, Ma Xianhong introduced them to the self-cultivation furnace he had made. This furnace could not only help extraordinary people improve their realm, but also transform ordinary people into extraordinary people. At the same time, Ma Xianhong asked Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing to help him improve the self-cultivation furnace and become his own superior root.

Wang Ye thought that they could not stay in Biyou Village for long, so when he and Zhuge Qing were about to leave quietly at night, they were intercepted by Ma Xianhong with his own superior root.

Wang Ye dueled against Ma Xianhong's superior aptitude, but was outnumbered and defeated. Zhuge Qing decided to sacrifice himself to help Wang Ye escape, confessing his feelings for him. Wang Ye, however, decided to concede defeat and offered Ma Xianhong the opportunity to release Zhuge Qing in exchange for teaching him the Fenghou Qimen. Ma Xianhong, however, claimed that he hadn't won, but rather that they had won. Wang Ye had gained a close friend, and Zhuge Qing had earned the respect of the entire Biyou Village community. It turned out that what they were witnessing was a test set by Ma Xianhong to protect Wang Ye, a fellow heir of the Eight Great Techniques.

Ma Xianhong stated that he would not force them to stay or leave. Just as Wang Ye decided to leave again, Zhuge Qing decided to stay in Biyou Village and became Ma Xianhong's twelfth superior disciple. In his inner vision, Wang Ye used divination to inquire about Ma Xianhong's affairs, and the answer appeared before him in the form of a blazing sun, a scene identical to the one he had experienced when he questioned Zhang Chulan in Wudang Mountain.

Wang Ye realized the seriousness of Ma Xianhong's actions and, after unsuccessfully trying to persuade him, decided to depose him. Meanwhile, temporary workers from Nadutong's six districts, led by Zhang Chulan, arrived at Biyou Village, halting the duel between Wang Ye and Ma Xianhong.

It turns out that Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and the others had come here to destroy Biyou Village under the guise of capturing Chen Duo. The core of the plot was the "Self-Cultivation Furnace," the existence of which threatened to disrupt the demographic divide between ordinary humans and other aliens. To prevent Zhuge Qing from remaining in Biyou Village and destroy the furnace, Wang Ye decided to collaborate with Zhang Chulan and others from Nadutong, ultimately aiding Nadutong in defeating Ma Xianhong. After descending the mountain, Wang Ye's memories revealed that he had been ambushed and nearly killed during the battle in Biyou Village. Although the individual had disguised their appearance, Wang Ye identified their voice as the mysterious figure who had attacked him in BJ. After the mysterious figure left, Wang Ye sought to understand their identity through his inner vision, but was unable to obtain the answer due to the sheer number of light orbs. Since leaving Wudang Mountain, his Fenghou Qimen had been causing him considerable trouble. At the same time, Fenghou Qimen, one of the Eight Wonders, is related to the Jiashen Rebellion of that year. Finally, Wang decided to start investigating the Jiashen Rebellion and the Eight Wonders.

After leaving Biyou Village, Wang Ye discovered that someone had been following him. Unable to bear the constant stalking, he decided to meet with the other party's leader. At the appointed location, Wang Ye met the mastermind behind his stalking—Chen Jinkui, one of the Ten Lords.

It turns out that Chen Jinkui, the head of the Shuzi Sect, has never been able to let go of his obsession with Fenghou Qimen. So he knelt down to beg for BJ's forgiveness for spying on Wang Ye, and begged Wang Ye to give him a chance to obtain Fenghou Qimen.

Finally, Wang made a pact of sincerity with the other party, promising that if Chen Jinkui could snatch the stone from his hand within three attempts, no time limit, he would teach him the Fenghou Qimen. Now he had won the bet.

After the battle with Chen Jinkui, Wang Ye finally made a decision. He wanted to jump into the vortex of Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao.

After questioning various sects about the Jiashen Rebellion, Wang Ye secretly returned to Wudang Mountain to discuss the incident and the Eight Great Skills with Grand Master. They concluded that the eight sects that had mastered these skills all shared a common trait: their founders were legendary figures who had ascended to heaven. Later, he and Grand Master reminisced about their early arrival in Wudang Mountain and their accidental acquisition of the Fenghou Qimen. With Grand Master Zhou Meng's evasiveness, Wang Ye was forced to leave Wudang Mountain.

After leaving Wudang Mountain, Wang Ye once again met Chen Jinkui who came to seek advice. After a contest, Wang Ye won again, but he was backfired and fainted because of the continuous opening of Fenghou Qimen. Due to the sudden strange phenomenon of his body, he is now placed on an island by Chen Jinkui, and together with Chen Jinkui, he works to solve the mystery of himself.

Li Weidong has long admired Master Wang.

What interested Li Weidong the most was the protagonist Zhang Chulan.

Zhang Chulan appears lazy but easygoing, prone to rants, yet is actually a meticulous thinker with a far superior mindset. He sometimes resorts to shameless behavior to achieve his goals, earning him the nickname "Buyao Bilian," a sentiment he readily accepts. He possesses a volatile personality and a seemingly contradictory character. He devotes considerable effort to uncovering Feng Baobao's past and protecting her. He once confessed that it doesn't matter to others whether they like him or not; as long as they like Baoer Jie, that's all he needs. He is a person who is more rational than emotional.

As a child, Zhang Chulan learned the art of Qi cultivation under the guidance of his grandfather, Zhang Xilin. He was then poisoned with the toad's blood and taught the Golden Light Curse and Five Thunders Law of the Tianshi Mansion. Due to his flamboyant and naive nature, he often used his grandfather's techniques to assault others, revealing his supernatural powers. Furthermore, his grandfather, Zhang Xilin, was constantly being hunted, forcing him to move frequently from home. When he was seven, his grandfather passed away. At his grave, his father, Zhang Yude, exhorted Zhang Chulan to learn to conceal himself before mysteriously disappearing. For twelve years, Zhang Chulan endured a life of seclusion as an ordinary person, under the surveillance of an orphanage and the supernatural world's governing organization, Nadutong, nearly abandoning his cultivation.

At the age of nineteen, while attending college, Zhang Chulan learned from the local police station that his grandfather's remains had been stolen. He also unexpectedly discovered that he had a new sister, Zhang Baobao. Returning home, Zhang Chulan went to his grandfather's grave at night to investigate, only to discover a disheveled young woman digging the grave with a shovel. He attempted to secretly film the scene, but was spotted and knocked unconscious as he fled. Upon waking, he found himself dumped in a dirt pit, where the young woman was about to bury him alive. Zhang Chulan pleaded for mercy, asking if she was his sister, Zhang Baobao. The young woman, however, revealed she wasn't his sister and her identity was fake, and prepared to proceed with the burial. Suddenly, a zombie riot erupted in the cemetery, and the young woman, now known as Zhang Baobao, engaged in a fight with the zombies.

A young girl carrying a shovel, digging graves and fighting a horde of zombies. The scene before her completely overturned Zhang Chulan's worldview. Zhang Chulan sat in the grave pit and said he was still dreaming. Seeing more and more zombies, the girl told Zhang Chulan that she didn't want to play anymore and left Zhang Chulan alone in the cemetery to fend for himself. After leaving the cemetery, the girl met a young man named Xu San outside. Xu San blamed the girl for leaving an ordinary person in such a dangerous place, but the girl said that Zhang Chulan would not die. Then thunder exploded in the direction of the cemetery, and a flash of lightning passed by. By the time the girl and Xu San arrived, all the zombies had been knocked down, and Zhang Chulan was nowhere to be found. Xu San smiled at the scene and said that this seemed to be a normal thing. He gave the girl a new ID card and asked her to go to Zhang Chulan's university and contact Zhang Chulan.

After returning to school, Zhang Chulan called the police station and said that he knew nothing and had not seen the so-called sister. Then he decided to forget what happened last night and started to attend class. Suddenly, he found that the crazy woman from last night was sitting next to him and attending class with him. After class, Zhang Chulan said that if the woman continued to pester him, he would call the police. However, the woman said that she had not memorized her new identity yet. Then she took out a new ID card and told Zhang Chulan in a thick Sichuan dialect that her name was Xu Baobao and she was an exchange student from Taiwan. Zhang Chulan looked at the Taiwanese girl in front of him who spoke Sichuan dialect, and his head was full of black lines. He said that he was not interested in who the woman loved, and in short, the woman should stop pestering him. The girl, who changed her name to Xu Baobao, did not agree and said that Zhang Chulan would be his slave in the future. He then attacked Zhang Chulan with a knife, forcing him to use the same tactics he'd used against the zombies the previous night. Unable to bear the humiliation, Zhang Chulan unleashed his own tactics, only to be defeated by Xu Baobao, who shaved off all his clothes. Looking at the naked stand-in, Xu Baobao declared that if he refused to be her slave, she would reveal to everyone that he had a toad's blood seal. A devastated Zhang Chulan declared himself her slave from then on. Lacking clothes, he hid in a tree until dark, then used his supernatural powers to fly back to the dormitory. While in mid-air, he was photographed sideways by a campus couple using their cell phone. From then on, the legend of the "Nude Knight" spread across campus.

Zhang Chulan, feeling down and groggy from the recent days, returned to his dorm room. On WeChat, a beautiful schoolmate, Liu Yanyan, approached him and asked him out on a date. Feeling his luck had finally turned, Zhang Chulan immediately agreed. Liu Yanyan declared Zhang Chulan her type, and after a hearty meal and amorous pleasure, he followed her to her rental apartment. As the outgoing Liu Yanyan sat on the bed and put her arms around Zhang Chulan's neck, Zhang Chulan, sensing something unusual, pulled away, declaring he knew she wasn't truly interested. After a brief moment of shock, Liu Yanyan quickly realized Zhang Chulan possessed a secret: a toad's blood. This toad's blood caused pain in Zhang Chulan, signaling his insincerity. As soon as Liu Yanyan released the zombies she controlled, Zhang Chulan immediately realized that it was Liu Yanyan who stole his grandfather's body. After that, Zhang Chulan was captured by Liu Yanyan's zombies and taken away. After being captured, Zhang Chulan met several strange people. Just when they wanted to plot against Zhang Chulan, Xu Baobao and Xu San, who could not contact Zhang Chulan, led a group of people wearing courier uniforms to attack the place. After a fight, Zhang Chulan was successfully rescued, but was scolded and ridiculed by Xu Baobao.

(End of this chapter)