The Old Sixth in a Time Loop

The path to ascension has been severed for ten thousand years, and the cultivators of Xuanguan Continent have been desperately searching for answers.

Xiao Xuan's answer is: restart. Death resets everything, and failing to ascend resets everything too. Ten thousand times over! He's tried every possible role: righteous leader, demonic powerhouse, flashy show-off, low-key farmer... and every time, it's been "Game Over."

More than ten thousand cycles have given him enough knowledge, skills, and dark history to upend the world, while grinding his mentality into that of the ultimate schemer. In this life, he chooses the most inconspicuous identity possible: an errand disciple of Tianyan Sect. His goal is the sect's forbidden grounds, a place no one has ever managed to explore. He swears he'll uncover the ultimate truth behind the cycles.

But this time around, there's a tiny little BUG! A young woman named Chu Xiaowan suddenly appears, claiming to come from "Zhiyan." She keeps spouting strange tropes like "Never look down on a young man in poverty," "the humble sweeper," and "a hidden powerhouse," and is determined to latch onto a powerful patron and reach the pinnacle of life.

And so the whole tone of the story goes completely off the rails! She mistakes a simpleton for a god of war, takes an emotionless face for aloofness, and is convinced that a sleeping old man is an unparalleled master... Yet she relentlessly lays into the real max-level powerhouse, Xiao Xuan: "Bro, quit pretending! You must've had your engagement broken off, right? Need a face-slapping service? We have a VIP monthly subscription discount!"

Xiao Xuan: "...I'm just an errand disciple. Please leave me alone!" Chu Xiaowan: "I get it! The classic play the pig to eat the tiger! This is in the bag!"