Lin Que transmigrates to the eve of the Great Calamity of Investiture of the Gods. He doesn’t become an innate god or demon, but instead becomes a postnatal merit treasure casually forged by the Sect Master of the Heavens: a gleaming golden brick!
After the Sect Master of the Heavens casually used it to bonk Duobao Daoist on the head while preaching, Lin Que unexpectedly took form and became the genuine “eldest senior brother” of the Jie Sect.
He awakens the [Emotional Breakdown Collection System]. As long as he drives others into an emotional meltdown and shatters their composure, he can endlessly upgrade his treasure’s grade and his own cultivation.
Guided by the principle that “everything can be knocked down with a single brick,” Lin Que takes the Jie Sect in a wildly unexpected direction.
He doesn’t teach the disciples swordsmanship. Instead, he teaches them how to lie in wait, pull sacks over people’s heads, and knock them out from behind.
Guangchengzi goes down the mountain to take on disciples, only to be knocked unconscious by a golden brick as soon as he leaves Mount Kunlun. When he wakes up, he finds he’s been stripped down to his underwear, and his Daoist heart shatters on the spot.
Randeng Daoist tries to ambush Zhao Gongming, but a hand suddenly reaches out from behind and smashes him into the dirt with a brick. “You old geezer, cough up your loot!”
The Investiture of the Gods calamity begins. The Primordial Heavenly Venerable looks at the twelve battered Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect, their heads covered in lumps and all wailing for their fathers and mothers, and shakes with rage.
The Sect Master of the Heavens watches Lin Que, who is idly spinning a walnut in his hand, and swallows. “Disciple, how is your postnatal spiritual treasure even fiercer than an innate supreme treasure?”