When rebirth meets an unreliable System, Lin Tianchen's senior-year routine suddenly turns fantastical: the homeroom teacher's thermos holds a thousand-year-old golden pill, the hotpot shop by the school gate hides a black market for cultivators, and even the top student's confession comes with the spicy kick of a truth talisman.
This underachiever, struck by lightning and sent back in time, discovers that the Merit-Accumulation System is basically a machine for public humiliation! Collecting embarrassing old stories earns him invisibility charms, while correcting mistakes on math tests lets him comprehend the art of flying swords. Other people cultivate with spiritual energy; his cultivation advances through ridiculous stunts. He uses a Wi-Fi signal to open up his energy channels, treats Three Years of College Entrance Exams and Five Years of Practice as a cultivation manual, and even discovers that the principal's wig is actually a Nascent Soul who failed its tribulation!
When ancient cultivators meet a post-00s master of internet antics: livestreamed exorcisms get beauty filters, pill furnaces are converted into air fryers, and demonic cultivators weep as they reform amid the aroma of hotpot. With one hand forming seals and the other working through practice problems, Lin Tianchen gains merit at a dizzying rate and finally understands: true ascension means refining the dean of discipline's furious shouts into a soul-quelling bell!
