1 legendary

2 fantasy saga

3 romance

4 short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty

1 strange

2 odd

3 to marvel

4 to be baffled

1 opportunity

2 favorable circumstance

3 stroke of luck

1 to meet

2 to encounter

3 to come across

1 magical

2 mystical

3 miraculous

1 not at all surprising (idiom)

1 meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)

1 lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)

1 fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)

1 can be discovered but not sought (idiom)

2 one can only come across such things serendipitously