Honghuang: Born of Stone, Tai Pan Seeks the Dao

Serious synopsis:

This is the legendary tale of Shi Ren, a lucky young man from Earth who was worked to the bone. By sheer luck, the dubious namesake transmigration-and-rebirth rule sent him back through time. His soul returned to primordial chaos, where he encountered Pangu and received a wondrous boon. He fell into the Primordial World and became Taipan, a stone man born of nature. After countless battles and tribulations, he came to roar proudly across the Primordial World, live freely, and reach the pinnacle of the Great Dao.

Not-so-serious synopsis:

Worked like a dog, he went camping. Then a stone fell into the Primordial World.

Shi Ren became a stone, then a stone man, while primordial beings mastered the three thousand ways.

Alas, this body was not Shi Ren’s, and an ordinary soul could hardly control it.

Without a fortuitous boon, he would have remained a stone statue forever.

Then the Primordial World was born, and this anomaly had nowhere to go.

Luckily, Pangu knew the way: the one who tied the knot must untie it.

From then on, fortune and opportunity revealed themselves, and the Primordial World’s stone man became known as Taipan.