After transmigrating into the body of a high school sophomore, Yi Chen awakens an innate Dao Body and discovers a heaven-defying technique for concealing his aura in his mind. From the Qi Refining stage onward, every breakthrough conceals his true cultivation, making his registered level always one major realm behind.
When the Xuanhuang Bureau comes to recruit him, he keeps the rules of cultivation firmly in mind and hides his edge at school. He spends his days doing practice problems, playing basketball, and fooling around with his best friends, keeping to an ordinary, carefree life. Yet he is decisive and ruthless: anyone who provokes him or covets what he has is killed without exception.
With no cultivation master to guide him, he learns by copying finished products from the black market. He masters alchemy, artifact forging, and talisman drawing, producing results far beyond those of his peers. In secret realms, he plays the part of the least impressive hanger-on, waiting until the others have fought each other to exhaustion before stepping in to claim the treasures, cleanly and efficiently.
From Qi Refining to Void Returning, he protects his dear friends and cherishes the bonds that keep him warm. He quietly cultivates in the modern city, and at last breaks through the boundary and ascends, leaving behind only his mortal attachments and the awe of other cultivators.
But Void Returning is not the end.
