Nobody knows this one exists. That's the real tragedy here. This is a 50-episode Chinese action-fantasy that treats its comedy like it matters as much as the sword work, which means it trusts you to laugh at absurdity in the same breath you're watching someone fight for their life. The action sequences have actual weight to them, the kind that makes you rewind to catch what just happened. It's a second season that assumes you already know the world and the people in it, so it wastes zero time on recaps and jumps straight into consequences. For anyone tired of anime that apologizes for having fun while being serious, this swings the opposite direction entirely.

Xu Wuzhou remains the poorly regarded husband who married into Lin'an City's Qin household. After stumbling onto a treasure called the Reincarnation Bowl, he keeps consuming metal to make himself stronger, and works quietly behind the scenes to carry the Qin family through a crisis and repair their low opinion of him. Across the thirty thousand states that honor Chaoge, princes and sects each chase their own goals. When Jixia Academy forces his wife to become its disciple, Xu Wuzhou joins the declining Taoist sect to get her back, even though Tao Zong, nominal leader of the Taoist sects, no longer has their respect. Before long, Xu Wuzhou unexpectedly finds himself charged with restoring Daozong.