Lin Qianshi is eighteen, and his life's ambition is to be a breathing couch potato.
Then, one summer, his parents win the "grand prize" at the Qingxu Mountain Taoist Temple: a deluxe summer-camp package for three. And so this modern young man, who only wants to stay home playing games and ordering takeout, is forced onto a bus and sent to a dilapidated Taoist temple on the verge of collapse.
Among his fellow "students":
Thirty-eight are hired extras earning eighty yuan a day.
The only real Taoist, Qingya, sells "thunderstruck wood talismans" during the day (actually bought wholesale online) and secretly teaches him cultivation at night.
Lin Qianshi thinks it's all just a scam, until...
Half a month later, I channel pure energy through my hand. "Wait, you're actually serious?"
"Now that I'm this powerful, do I still have to go to school?"
"Dad, what are you doing here?"
"I was just kidding! Don't hit me!"
"Fine, I'll go! I'll go!!!"
After summer vacation, Lin Qianshi stares at the school gates. "I'm a once-in-a-generation genius, and this is what I've come to."
Six months later: "You old bastard, what the hell is cultivating the mortal world? I'm an honest person!"
"I'd sooner let a dog cultivate it... Fine, I'll do it!"
Two months later, Lin Qianshi looks at the WeChat messages popping up nonstop on his phone and twitches his mouth. "Is this mortal-world cultivation really that powerful?"
