"We couldn't stand it, so we traveled all over Jiangbei, exorcising evil and slaying ghosts."
"Later, we met our captain by chance."
"He was an Unusual Person who practiced both martial arts and mystic arts, with extraordinary talent. Rarest of all was his personal charisma. By the time we met, he already had four people following him."
"They were all experts who had reached the third stage of cultivation at a young age."
"What you'd call C-Class now."
"He said this place was too chaotic, and he wanted to establish new rules here."
"We all nodded and said, 'All right.'"
"From then on, we called ourselves the Big Dipper."
At this point, Uncle Wei looked wistful, as though he were recalling that night when a group of young men and women had sat around a campfire and sworn an oath.
"Never thought you lot had such a flair for melodrama. What was your title, Old Wei? Celestial Pivot? Shaking Light?" Jiang Chen asked with a chuckle.
Uncle Wei shook his head.
"We used a more ancient set of names."
"Our captain was Po Jun. A Quan-the current King Chujiang, Jiang Quan-was Literary Song."
"I was Prosperity Guard."
"Giant Gate was a man from the loess country out west. No one could break through his body-hardening martial arts. Later, he died at the hands of an old jiangshi while covering our escape."
"Martial Song..."
Uncle Wei paused. "She was a gentle girl from the south named Lu Wan. She was incredible. She had mastered dozens of martial arts, every one of them thoroughly."
"What a shame. What a terrible shame."
"That blood-clad vengeful ghost never gave her a chance to use them!"
"That night, I watched as her heart was ripped out and eaten, bite by bite. I screamed with everything