When Chen Guanqi wakes up, he has become a poor man struggling to survive in Renjia Town. In this world, Uncle Jiu’s talismans keep zombies at bay, while Zhang Qishan’s iron cavalry tramples ancient tombs. It turns out to be a perilous world where Mr. Vampire and The Grave Robbers' Chronicles collide! With no System to rely on, his only advantages are his memories of films and television dramas and his extraordinary comprehension.
His aptitude is mediocre? He’s determined to defy fate! He becomes Uncle Jiu’s disciple, but his ordinary constitution means he can only learn the basics. However, his remarkable comprehension lets him spot deadly plot traps from Mr. Vampire at a glance. He plans ahead, saves fellow disciples, claims the greatest credit, and obtains a fragment of a genuine cultivation manual. His power of association is his ladder to the heavens: sticky rice can counter zombies? He can deduce a secret formation that converts corpse energy. Miaojiang poison and parasites? He dares to draw on biochemical knowledge to improve them! His foreknowledge of films and television is also a blade for seizing fortune. In a Western Zhou tomb, he predicts the weaknesses of corpse beetles and takes a Bronze Alchemy Furnace that can purify yin energy. Amid the turmoil of the Old Nine Gates, he borrows Zhang Qishan’s influence to make rubbings of the Zhang Family Ancient Tower’s bronze secret patterns, glimpsing a corner of the secret of immortality.
From then on, Chen Guanqi walks the gray border between the worlds of yin and yang. In Uncle Jiu’s eyes, he is a "dim-witted" disciple with astonishing comprehension. In the secret lore of the Old Nine Gates, he is the mysterious master of the "Guanqi Pavilion."
