“No matter how high your ability rank is, even if you’re the top cultivator in China, can you really stand up to a gun?”
“I can already picture you getting shot dead.”
Chu Mu is a quiet country boy. At eighteen, his outstanding college entrance exam results were enough to get him into a top university and make him the pride of everyone around him. Yet one day, he suddenly became obsessed with going up the mountain to cultivate the Tao.
After vanishing for three years, he hits a bottleneck in his cultivation and returns to the mortal world, only to find that everything has changed. All kinds of supernatural abilities are now commonplace, and the world has entered an age of extraordinary powers. The little Taoist arts he has cultivated seem utterly insignificant beside those of top ability users. He can’t help wondering if he still has anything to offer.
After he’s forced to kill someone, he happens upon a fellow Taoist who turns out to be a senior brother of sorts. He goes from a lone, unregistered cultivator to a licensed inspector, only to have his meridians and cultivation crippled by an A-rank ability user during his very first mission. In the end, his fellow Taoist takes pity on him and gives him a foreign drug that glows faintly, though its effects are unknown...
But how is he supposed to deal with divinely gifted beings who can summon wind and rain with a wave of their hand, wielding powers such as Golden Words, Mustard Seed Space, Three-Dimensional Egolessness, Creation of All Things, Deprivation of the Five Senses, Chaos Shapeshifting, an Immortal Divine Body, and Law of Heaven and Earth?
(The male lead focuses on patiently keeping a low profile and surviving. There’s basically no romance. The story supports gender equality. Readers looking for idealized female characters, please skip it.)
