How to Pass Yourself Off as a Big Shot in the Cultivation World

After overworked office drone Lin Chen dies from working overtime, he binds to the Civilization Ascension System and is forced to transmigrate to a world of cultivation. There, he becomes the nominal sect leader of the Starfall Pavilion, a good-for-nothing sect with nothing left but a broken signboard. The System has an unusual goal: it doesn’t care whether he ascends personally, only that he guides the entire world toward civilization’s next level! His cultivation is only at the Qi Refining stage, and in a real fight he’s hopeless, yet the System forces him to pose as an unfathomably enlightened master. To avoid being exposed and having his soul scattered, Lin Chen grits his teeth and begins the painstaking business of “bluffing,” relying on his modern knowledge and the System’s tools. The disciples he recruits are just as eccentric: a math fanatic, a blacksmith, a mute girl, a blind musician… He ignores spiritual roots and recruits people with unusual talents instead! In the eyes of outsiders, he is a reclusive master whose every word becomes law and whose prestige is unmatched. In reality, he’s a “good-for-nothing sect leader” who constantly fears being found out and is panicking inside. Watch as he relies on a band of genius disciples who believe their sect leader’s “ordinary appearance must conceal profound wisdom,” using scientific principles to explain the path of cultivation, assembly lines to produce magical artifacts and elixirs, psychology to overcome inner demons, and sociology to manage the sect… Amid the doubts and suppression of the traditional powers, he keeps putting on an act and slapping faces, playing the pig to eat the tiger. He turns the Starfall Pavilion’s “strange tricks and clever contraptions” into a wave of change that leads the age, ultimately uncovering the ultimate secrets behind the world and the System.