Grand Master

Grand Master is an urban fantasy novel by the web author The Cat-Chasing Mouse. It began serialization on a web fiction platform in December 2013, was completed in April 2014, and runs about 1.23 million Chinese characters. The protagonist, Wang Feng, is a young man in the modern city whose life changes completely when a mysterious stone man falls from the sky and grants him an extraordinary inheritance. With the stone man's legacy and a family jade pendant, he trains in martial arts and displays astonishing talent in music, chess, calligraphy, painting, astrology, medicine, and divination, so that people around him see him as an all-capable grand master. As his power grows, Wang Feng moves from campus life into broader adventures in other worlds, gradually uncovering the mystery of his own origins and becoming entangled in the thousand-year feud between the Twelve Tomb-Guarding Clans and the forces that destroyed Qin. The story advances through core threads such as the struggle over the secret treasures of the First Emperor's mausoleum and the inheritance of the Three Emperors' relics, blending martial cultivation, awakened powers, and tomb exploration, while interspersing tense fights and schemes with a great deal of humorous banter, shaping a protagonist who is brash, confident, fond of showing off, and deeply loyal. The book moves briskly with frequent payoffs; it is a typical 2010s urban cultivation all-around-power fantasy, suited to readers who want a long web novel that is easy to read and can be finished in one go.