Chen Sheng was originally an utterly ordinary college student. Actually, that's not quite right: how many college students become so obsessed with cultivating immortality that they poison themselves to death?
After being killed by the "immortal pill" he had concocted, he unexpectedly transmigrates to Douluo Dalu, where he is adopted by Bibi Dong and Qian Xunji, who are still young. Even more surprisingly, Chen Sheng discovers that he can cultivate using the methods from his previous life's immortal arts. Just as he is brimming with confidence and preparing to cultivate immortality in this other world, reality delivers him a crushing blow.
Suppressed by the world's laws, he is forever capped at level 99, the equivalent of the Refining Spirit and Returning to the Void stage. Unwilling to accept this, he studies the problem painstakingly and discovers that the only way to overcome the world's rules is to spread the Way and gather the faith of all living beings. So he takes Bibi Dong away just as Qian Xunji is about to defile her. Pursued by Spirit Hall, they arrive in Suotuo City, establish their own academy, and begin a uniquely unconventional path of spreading the Way.
Not bad 👍