[Misunderstandings, sect-building, extreme contrasts, everyone overthinks]
“Please stop reading so much into everything! I’m really just trying to break even. Why are you all kneeling?”
Jiang Yizhou transmigrates into the body of a spendthrift sect leader whose sect is dirt poor, and awakens the [Myriad Things Imprinting Mirror]. As long as he endures “the agony of being sliced to pieces” and “depleted blood and qi,” he can make unlimited copies of anything in the world!
And so, a “tragic saint” who leaves the entire cultivation world both devastated and deeply moved is born.
Copy a hundred thousand spirit stones? His face turns ashen, and he can barely stay on his feet.
Copy a top-grade spirit weapon? Blood pours from every orifice, and he’s reduced to skin and bones.
Copy an ancient sword intent? His whole body bursts apart, and he faints on the spot!
Jiang Yizhou is in so much pain he wants to curse, but everyone in the sect is crying their eyes out:
“Our Sect Master is burning through his lifespan again to support the sect! Everyone, get cultivating! Don’t let his sacrifices go to waste!”
…
The sect is in crisis, with powerful enemies at the gates.
Jiang Yizhou drags his “broken body” along as he builds a mountain-protecting formation by hand, spitting blood while tallying the spoils.
The enemy commander loses it: “You madman! You actually sacrificed your soul and triggered heavenly tribulation just to kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator like me?”
The Demon Sect’s saintess breaks down in tears: “He’s already completely spent, yet he’s still draining his life to protect the disciples behind him!”
A reclusive powerhouse trembles: “How can this be a sickly weakling? He’s clearly an unparalleled Dao Lord reborn to cultivate anew, using his own body as a furnace and shouldering the fate of all living beings!”
Jiang Yizhou shakily raises a hand. “I’ll come clean. Actually, I can still…”
The young prodigies burst into tears: “Enough! You are the backbone of the cultivation world! Anyone who lays a hand on Withered Glory Mountain makes an enemy of the whole world!”
