Lin Chuan transmigrates and becomes a half-dead Huangzhong Plum on the back of Kunlun Mountain, a legendary, heaven-defying spiritual root said to grant the Daluo Dao Fruit to anyone who eats one of its fruits.
What? My true form is so powerful that taking human form means certain death?
No problem. I have a proficiency panel. Cultivating, alchemy, and crafting treasures all come with progress bars. Heaven rewards diligence. Who cares about talent or comprehension?
On the day he takes human form, a fierce tribulation descends. Taishang Laozi happens to pass by and casually saves this “diligent junior.” From then on, Lin Chuan, Daoist name Qingxuan, becomes the foremost disciple of the Three Pure Ones and the eldest disciple of the Human Sect.
While his fellow disciples are still laboring away at their cultivation, he uses his panel to grind proficiency at a furious pace: his alchemy amazes Laozi, he seeks advice on swordsmanship from Tongtian, and he learns divine powers from Yuanshi. In eighty thousand years, he surges from Golden Immortal to Taiyi, casually refining the Qiankun Cauldron and receiving the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner as a gift.
At the Zixiao Palace to hear the Dao, he coolly watches the dispute over the meditation cushions and thinks to himself: The Three Pure Ones will fall out over their differing ideals in the future? No way. I can’t let eighty thousand years of building up their favor go to waste!
At Treasure Distribution Cliff, he clashes head-on with Kunpeng and seizes the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls by force. As he travels through the wilderness, he crushes the fierce beasts of his generation with the twin laws of creation and destruction, recruits the Six-Eared Macaque, obtains the Pure World White Lotus, and snatches the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler.
Nuwa Creates Humans, the Three Pure Ones establish their sects, and the War Between the Liches and Demons erupts. He remains secure on Kunlun, making plans in secret.
When the Investiture of the Gods tribulation begins, disciples of the three sects slaughter one another, and the Three Pure Ones are on the verge of turning against each other. Qingxuan steps forward: he breaks the Ten Absolute Arrays without killing a single person, storms the Immortal Slaying Formation and awakens Tongtian, then saves the heavens from collapse with the strength of a peak Primordial Origin Golden Immortal!
In the end, he fuses three great laws to attain the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm, then joins the Three Pure Ones in refining Chaos and raising the dimensionality of the wilderness!
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