After a thousand years of arduous cultivation, Li Changsheng finally faces his tribulation, but a bolt of heavenly lightning hurls him into the modern world.
Looking at this new world, where spiritual energy is scarce and the Dao has fallen into decline, the former grandmaster of cultivation sinks into thought.
He means to live quietly in seclusion, but the online novel he writes on a whim becomes a sensation. Wealthy magnates scramble to pay exorbitant prices for his talismans, and even his square-dance boxing routine sends ancient martial arts clans into an uproar.
Then one night, a special agency knocks on his door: “Mr. Li, the nation needs you.”
Li Changsheng sighs. “I only want to ascend in peace. Why is that so hard?”
Tribulation clouds like black ink roil and gather, pressing heavily over the peak of a towering mountain. At their swirling heart, streaks of violet-white lightning dart like dragons and serpents, radiating a destructive aura. Li Changsheng's blue robe has been shredded by the raging astral winds, exposing skin smooth as jade beneath. He sits cross-legged on the only flat boulder atop the summit. The pure spiritual energy he has cultivated for a thousand years surges through his body, forming a solid pillar of blue light that shoots into the heavens and defiantly confronts the might of the world.
A thousand years. He has lived on wind and dew, feasted on rosy clouds, and endured countless years of desolation, crossing innumerable thresholds between life and death, all for this moment of ascension. His Daoist heart is clear and still as an ancient well. He waits only for the final, most powerful ninth heavenly thunderbolt to descend.
Here it comes!
The heavens suddenly blaze with light. A massive purple divine thunderbolt, stretching across the sky and thick enough to make the heart tremble, tears through the void. Bearing the awe-inspiring authority of heaven, it descends upon Li Changsheng, ready to judge all things and annihilate everything!
Li Changsheng rises to his feet, his hand seals shifting as he unleashes every last bit of spiritual power, meeting the light of destruction head-on. He expects his golden core to shatter, his Nascent Soul to...
