Ten Thousand Trades, Demonic Obsession

Take a bowl, fill it with soil, and count—one, two, three, four, five. Plant a toad, it turns into a train; plant an edamame bean, it turns into a tiger. Grow yourself a set of great skills, and you’ll live a life of comfort and no hardship. There are three hundred and sixty trades in the world—who gets to call the shots? There’s a carpenter with amazing skills—he snaps the ink line and divides yin from yang; tenons and joints lock together to suppress the chaos across the eight directions. There’s a blacksmith with real technique—one furnace of molten iron echoes through the world, his hammer strikes shatter day and night. Then there’s a tailor with grand ambition—he spins the wind in...