Public identity: A third-year history student at Qingbei University, above-average looks, a languid air, and hobbies that include skipping class, staying in the dorm, and checking out pretty girls.
True identity: The current young lord of the reclusive Lin family, a cultivation clan. The family went into seclusion after signing a supplementary agreement to the “Absolute Heaven and Earth Separation” pact a thousand years ago, but its power is unfathomable. Lin Chen is the “Chaos Dao Physique,” a rare talent unseen in ten thousand years. Tired of the family’s endless rules, however, he chose to enter the mortal world and “experience life.”
Personality: He seems frivolous, lazy, and content to drift through life, but in reality he’s meticulous and fiercely loyal to those he cares about. His biggest troubles are having nowhere to put all his charm and never having enough spending money, since his family gives him spirit stones as “pocket money” and he has to figure out how to turn them into cash.
Cultivation system:
Modern simplified version: Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Golden Core → Nascent Soul → Spirit Transformation → Dao Integration → Tribulation Transcendence.
Special features: Cultivation meets modern technology. He uses a phone app to practice drawing talismans, drones to patrol formations, and Ele.me’s same-city express delivery service to order alchemy ingredients.
World setting:
Hidden within the modern metropolis is an unknown “inner world”: the cultivation world. The major cultivation sects and families have all modernized and operate like corporations. For example, the Shu Mountain Sword Sect holds a controlling stake in Flying Sword Express, while Kunlun Jade Void Palace runs high-end “paradise grotto” real estate.
Ordinary people come up with “reasonable” explanations for supernatural phenomena, maintaining a delicate balance.
