The Peerless Expert in the Good-for-Nothing Qi Refining Realm

After repeatedly failing the civil service exam, the young man Yi Yang happened upon a copy of the De Dao Jing. Caught between reality and his ideals, he gradually became absorbed in its philosophy of conduct: “The highest good is like water.” One stormy night, he was accidentally electrocuted while studying the text. When he awoke, he had become the good-for-nothing disciple everyone despised in the Qinglan Sect of the cultivation world.

In his sea of consciousness, the golden copy of the De Dao Jing shone with brilliant light. Thanks to his unique understanding of its teachings, he cultivated the sect's most basic “Fireball Spell” to its highest level and mastered beginner techniques like “Taixu Pushing Hands” and the “Taixu Sword Art” to perfection. Yet no matter how astonishing his talent, in everyone else's eyes he remained “the good-for-nothing who will forever be stuck at the Qi Refining Realm.”

“Water benefits all things and does not contend...” Yi Yang always stayed true to this way of life. He quietly resolved crises within the sect, secretly guided the sect leader in cultivation, and even saved the sect from destruction several times. He became cultivation partners with the peerlessly beautiful sect leader, Su Yingxue, but no one knew.

Until one day, when powerful enemies threatened the sect...

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