> In Earth's end-of-magic era, spiritual qi is scarcer than clean air in a smog-choked city.
> Gou Fugui, the poorest Qi Refining cultivator in history, has one goal: reach Foundation Establishment and live to 200, then retire!
> He sells his patriarch's chamber pot to make rent, only to be hunted by the tech giant Cyber Immortal Alliance;
> He delivers takeout on a flying sword and gets framed in a traffic scam, while his junior sister hacks into a drone and makes it dance in the plaza;
> One sip of medicinal cuisine turns him into a human water cannon, and he somehow grasps the threshold of Foundation Establishment in a pool of sewage...
> When the villain activates a spirit-draining device to destroy the world, they blast open an **ancient teleportation array**
> At a cost: a white-haired, gravely wounded heroine who falls for him, a hero shrunk into a little boy, and a six-hundred-million spirit stone loan!
> The cultivation world's king of slacking off vs. the capitalist pursuing mechanical ascension: **absurd comedy and sky-high blood pressure, side by side!**
