Bai Xiaochang, a streetwise rogue, wields a candied-hawthorn skewer to pierce the Three Realms, chews on the threads of karma like spicy strips, and spouts outrageous lines as he tears off his clothes to survive tribulations. Born with the Body of Ten Thousand Causes, he nevertheless cultivates the Heartless Dao. With one hand, he suppresses the lovesick widow of the Joyous Union Sect; with the other, he feeds a sword spirit and her backstabbing old lady. When the candied-hawthorn skewer spirit awakens its killing form, the Patriarch's remains crawl out of the coffin and call him Dad. It turns out that eating enough of the hundred thousand threads of karma lets him pickle the Heavenly Dao into a jar of candied preserves.
