I Read My Way into Sainthood

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, the seventh year of the Jingde era, the emperor devoted himself to pursuing immortality and neglected state affairs. Then a century's worth of calamities descended from the heavens, leaving the people of Great Zhou in misery and turning the land into something like hell. Amid all this suffering, a sage named Luo Yang appeared...

Who says scholars are good for nothing? I, Su Luoyang, have studied the books of the sages, traveled thousands of miles, seen countless beautiful mountains and rivers, and tasted the hardships of the people across the land. I compose poetry among the mountains and sing in drinking duels with ghosts and gods. I follow the Way of Heaven and attain the body of a sage!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.