Transmigrating to Another World: The Rise of a Fishmonger

Wang Jianguo, a forty-year-old kitchen assistant, dies in a raging fire that engulfs a vat of oil.

When he opens his eyes again, he has become Wang Xiaoshi, an eight-year-old beggar in a cultivation world, curled up with a high fever in a pile of straw inside a ruined temple.

From the original owner's memories, he learns that his parents were caught in the crossfire of a battle between cultivators and blown to pieces, while he spent two years wandering and nearly starved to death.

For half a moldy bun, he agrees to clean a fish with poisonous spines for a fishmonger.

The instant his little hand grips the fish knife, twenty years of muscle memory from his previous life as a fish cleaner awaken.

He removes the bones and tendons with effortless precision, leaving the watching cultivators stunned. “The way this child handles poisonous fish... it actually contains the rhyme of the Dao?”