After transmigrating as a good-for-nothing with a mixed Five-Element spiritual root, Lin Yi thought the cultivation world would be full of opportunities. Then he discovered that he wouldn't do anything unless he was certain of success, even if it killed him.
Before joining a sect, he calculates the odds. Before a fight, he calculates the odds. Even before earning spirit stones, he makes sure to research the market. His senior sister is the Sword Heaven Sect's greatest prodigy, cold as ice, yet for some reason she's taken an interest in him. Mu Yunxi of the Sunset Glow Palace wears a radiant smile and immediately gets him to owe her a favor. Junior sister Su Tang brings him meals and pastries every day, insisting she doesn't care while her eyes shine brighter than anyone else's.
But all he wants is to earn spirit stones in peace, cultivate, and then earn more spirit stones. The Sword Heaven Discourse, the Eastern Wasteland Sword Debate, the Great Void Secret Realm: he'll avoid them if he can, and if he can't, he'll prepare eighteen escape routes in advance.
Until he discovers that the aloof senior sister's reasons for approaching him are far more complicated than they seem, and his greatest opportunity lies hidden in the unfathomably deep secret realm behind her.
"I don't have any grand ambitions. I just want to stay alive and earn a few spirit stones. But if you insist on provoking me, don't blame me for calculating every last one of your trump cards in advance."
