[Ordinary protagonist + golden finger + ruthless and decisive + sly operator] [Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation]
Ouyang Xiao, a boy from Little Sea Village.
The cultivation world says he's lucky:
At the Qi Refining stage, he tricked a Golden Core elder into taking him on as a personal disciple. At Foundation Establishment, he disguised himself as a demonic cultivator to sneak into a secret realm. When forming his core, he bid on the grand finale treasure despite being wanted by the three great sects.
Yet no one knows that on every full moon, he has to tie his hands together with fishing line on the beach. Yesterday, he spent half a day pretending to be a Nascent Soul patriarch. This morning, he woke up unable to tell the difference between a reef and a human skull.
Until he meets the female cultivator who was poisoned and fell into the sea.
She parts his seven layers of disguise with the tip of her sword, but when she sees the faded shell necklace at his waist, she lets her life-bound sword fall into the abyss.
“There's the aura of three thousand people on you,” Ye Qingli says with a bloody cough and a smile. “Yet you hide behind the clumsiest trick from a fishing village.”
The sigh of a Spirit Transformation cultivator rides the tide, and purple lightning seeps from a crack in the sky.
Ouyang Xiao grips the sea-salt-soaked rainbow sash and looks at the chain-shaped markings on his palm, growing clearer with every increase in cultivation.
In this cultivation world,
some seek immortality,
some fight for their destiny,
but all he wants is to prove that the fishing village boy who was chased around with his head between his hands was never anyone's substitute.
