Cultivation: The System Makes Me Burn Immortal Herbs for Firewood

Gu Changjun, a menial disciple of the Qingxuan Sect, unexpectedly awakens a System called "The Mistranslation of All Things" and sets out on an utterly bizarre path to immortality. The System appraises everything, but every piece of information it gives is wrong: it labels the "Nine-Turn Resurrection Herb," capable of bringing the dead back to life, as a weed too irritating to even burn for kindling, and mistakes the "Ancient Immortal Venerable's Sword Bone," which contains the supreme Way of the Sword, for an animal bone fit only to be ground into powder and fed to dogs. Yet when Gu Changjun follows its advice and tosses the immortal herb into the stove, he refines an unparalleled spirit pill. When he throws the sword bone to a stray dog, it becomes a guardian divine beast.

The entire sect regards him as a good-for-nothing with terrible luck who only picks up garbage, until he meets Luo Yao, a young woman who has transmigrated into this world. With a modern person's imagination and familiarity with familiar plot conventions, Luo Yao sees through the truth behind Gu Changjun's "bad luck" at a glance. She is convinced that he is practicing a profound cultivation art beyond ordinary understanding. The two hit it off immediately: he follows the System's incorrect hints and does the opposite, stumbling into one fortuitous encounter after another, while she enthusiastically "explains" and "fills in the blanks," rationalizing his astonishing actions as the result of far-reaching plans.

Together, they shake up the sect, playing the pig to eat the tiger through one laughable adventure after another, and gradually uncover the shocking secret behind the "Mistranslation of All Things" System. It turns out that these seemingly absurd errors are the only shortcut to evading the Heavenly Dao's surveillance and reaching the Great Dao directly. Faced with the supreme laws of the Heavenly Dao, how will Gu Changjun and Luo Yao use their unique wisdom of "misinterpretation" to contend with the heavens and reach the pinnacle of the immortal path?