Five-element spiritual roots mean you’re a good-for-nothing at cultivation? Chen Mo, an outer disciple of the Luoxia Sect, can tell you from personal experience: not necessarily.
Two years after transmigrating, he has his Qi Gathering Powder stolen and his cultivation manual torn up. Even the weeds in the training ground get more respect than he does. Then one day, Zhang Lei smashes his wooden sword, and the [Hidden Edge System] suddenly awakens: “Pretend to be weak and strike back at your enemies to improve your cultivation.”
So he blows up burning powder to scorch his enemies’ faces, hides his fourth-level Qi Refining strength while playing the coward, deliberately advances in a sorry state during the outer disciple tournament, then turns around and defeats a seventh-level Qi Refining opponent in the finals. He trades for techniques in the System’s shop, uses Marrow Cleansing Pills to improve his aptitude, and surprises everyone at every turn.
“Chen Mo? Oh, that good-for-nothing who can’t even hold a sword properly.”
No one knows that behind the words “good-for-nothing” lies a secret shortcut leading straight to the pinnacle of the path to immortality.
