Extras

All extras can be found as part of the translation linked from here, or at foxghost's journal here: extra 1, extra2, extra3, extra5.

### Extra 1

Extra one takes place just over a week after the end of the novel.

Zhao Yunlan is working in his office and is interrupted by Lin Jing , who is very excited by Zhao Yunlan’s newly-revealed godly status as the human incarnation of Kunlun and takes a photo of him to check if he shows up on film - he does. Zhu Hong then comes in and asks him if he’ll be returning to Kunlun mountain, and he confirms he’s going to stay in Dragon City. Then Chu Shuzhi interrupts him, and they discuss how Guo Changcheng ’s merit is keeping the Lantern of the Guardian burning.

Finally, Shen Wei arrives and apologises to Zhao Yunlan, but Zhao Yunlan is still angry with him for changing his memories and acts coldly towards him. Guo Changcheng inadvertently gives away to Shen Wei that Zhao Yunlan watched over Shen Wei’s bedside for a week while he was in a coma, following the events of the final chapter. The rest of SIU leave and Shen Wei kneels to Zhao Yunlan in apology; they sit on the floor together and Zhao Yunlan softens towards him and lets him hold him. They leave together.

### Extra 2

Extra two takes place about a month later, at the start of Spring.

It consists of two main parts: the first part gives a little update on the lives of the SIU people: Guo Changcheng and Chu Suzhi are working together. It's again explained that Guo Changcheng is the wick of the Lantern of the Guardian, and his merit is equal to that of ancient gods. Shen Wei is teaching, Zhao Yunlan stays in bed instead of coming to work (in the words of Zhu Hong: "His man fucked him so hard he can’t get out of bed"). Zhu Hong is also still with the SIU, and seems to have made peace with the fact that Zhao Yunlan is with Shen Wei now.

The second part explains the main plot point of the novel: "the creation of the Greater Wheel of Reincarnation using the Ghost King’s soul as a medium and borrowing Great Merit from the [Lantern of the Guardian] to join them together". Zhao Yunlan/Kunlun explains some of it to Shennong, but refuses to explain every little detail, leaving it open for Shennong (and the reader) to understand it in his own time.

### Extra 3

The third extra takes place an unspecified time later, in Autumn, and tells of the SIU's move from 4 Bright Road to a new office at 9 University Road. They have two cellars for their books and their ghosts, a warm attic, and a courtyard. They divide up the courtyard between them, and Zhao Yunlan claims the entire back courtyard as a vegetable garden.

Shen Wei comes to wake Zhao Yunlan from a nap, and they flirt a little before Shen Wei takes Zhao Yunlan home. All SIU employees enjoy the fact that Shen Wei comes to pick up Zhao Yunlan every day, so they can leave work early.

Guo Changcheng is nervous about having to go on a formal marriage interview with a prospective bride, and Chu Shuzhi suggests he go along (cf drama episode 40). Chu Shuzhi listens to the two talk for a long time before getting impatient and snatching Guo Changcheng up and leaving with him. Lin Jing, who has apparently bugged Guo Changcheng's bag, immediately spreads the information that Guo Changcheng and Chu Shuzhi are now together to the rest of the SIU.

### Extra 4

The Shen San extra.

This extra tells of a previous incarnation of Zhao Yunlan/Kunlun, called Shen San. He's a noble fighter, who carries the Guardian Token, but doesn't know what it is. He gifts it to a mother with a child to protect her child from harm. On the run from their pursuers, he falls from a great height and gets injured, falling unconscious. He is rescued by the Ghost King (at this point still only called Wei), and nursed back to health in a small hut next to a plum tree. Shen San keeps trying to find out who the ghost is that's taking such good care of him, but Wei never tells him.

Over time, Shen San falls in love with Wei, and even though he leaves the hut to go back to wandering the Jianghu, he eventually returns. Wei is still waiting for him there, and they start living together, but it takes an illustrated book of erotica, the famous 'Peach Chronicle', for Wei to realize what he could have with Shen San, and for them to start a sexual relationship.

This lasts for several years, but predictably, the loss of the Guardian Token and the proximity to Wei make Shen San's health weaker and weaker, and eventually, he dies.

Wei realizes that Shennong was right and he never should have gotten close to Kunlun - and he never does again. He takes Shen San's last name from then on. He also recovers the Guardian Token and gives it to Da Qing, who has been sleeping for thousands of years at the top of Mount Kunlun, instructing him to give it to each new incarnation of Kunlun.

### Extra 5

In the translator's words: 'the chapter that turns the ending of the Guardian drama into a happy ending'

It tells of an SIU case that involves bubbles of other/alternate realities. Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei must traverse all of those bubbles in order to burst them and return to their own world. The Guardian drama is just one of those bubbles.