In his previous life, the male protagonist died a miserable death in the apocalypse, betrayed and left with nothing.
Reborn one day, he returns to his youth, when he was practicing at a Taoist temple, and binds himself to an Apocalypse Survival System. His cheat-fueled life begins at once.
A master of a hidden Taoist sect, he is calculating and adept at concealing his abilities, playing the pig to eat the tiger. He seems utterly ordinary on the surface, but his cultivation is maxed out, and he practices both Taoist arts and supernatural abilities.
He descends the mountain and enters the world ahead of time, stockpiling supplies for the apocalypse, seeing through the grudges and tangled relationships from his previous life, and avoiding the calamities that would have killed him.
The apocalypse arrives. Zombies run rampant, mutated beasts are everywhere, supernatural ability users fight for dominance, and the major factions scheme against one another.
He keeps a low profile as he grows stronger, wins over loyal followers, and builds a safe base of his own. While clearing out zombies and sweeping aside mutated beasts, he plots against the various factions, repaying every grudge and every kindness.
By chance, he opens a passage to another world, traveling between Earth's apocalypse and a different-world continent. He cultivates Taoist arts, trains his supernatural abilities, claims secret realms, recruits prodigies, and builds his forces.
From a young Taoist disciple at a temple to a recluse in the city, then an apocalypse overlord and a supreme ruler of another world, he strides across dimensions and steps into chaos, playing the pig to eat the tiger all the way and crushing every foe with ease.
He schemes from afar, hides his strength, and pretends to be weak. Anyone who provokes him gets handled in turn, while everyone who follows him can live in peace.
In the end, he transcends the shackles of all worlds, puts an end to every calamity, safeguards peace throughout the heavens, and becomes the one eternal ruler!
The setting is in line with the popular elements of post-apocalyptic novels, the plot has a tight rhythm, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger runs through the whole process, and the layout is grand and full of excitement. The most moving part of this book is not the reconstruction on the ruins of the doomsday, but the weight of the word "inheritance". A sword intention to return to the ruins started with Taoist Qingxu's sword intention that split the iron gate of Longyuan to seal it. After Xu Xingzi spent his life mapping and paving the way, it was finally handed over to Yin Cheng's hands; a little girl who was abandoned at the bottom of the abyss relied on this sword intention to keep the seal alone in the darkness for decades. After being brought back, she named herself Shen Tang - Shen of Shen Yuan, sugar wrapped in sugar. The grandeur is the epic pattern in which the Qingxu River, which had dried up for tens of thousands of years, is flowing again, and the spiritual energy of the two worlds is continued. The subtleties are the ever-steaming bean paste-filled sugar packets in the cafeteria, the charcoal traces of children learning to draw evil-proof charms under the old pine tree, and the Longyuan iron knife holder that Feng Jing nailed to the pine trunk. The system of survival and cultivation in the apocalypse is not a simple collage here, but is firmly stitched together by the extremely simple belief of "protecting daily life" - the spiritual spring needs to be repaired and the ferry needs to be opened, but the first thing after the repair is to open a sugar bun shop next to the ferry. This kind of survival romance that grows out of the apocalyptic wasteland allows every character to live with flesh and blood on this ancient waterway that flows again. It also allows Yin Cheng to transform from a lonely soul in the apocalypse who stood in the ruins with no living people around him in his previous life, to a guardian who sits on the mountain threshold in this life and watches the lively scene in the yard, holding the Guixu Sword across his knees and waiting for the steamed sugar buns in the cafeteria tomorrow. When the copper bell of Qingxu Temple is blown by the wind, it is exactly the same as the copper bell that rings on this mountain every day - and this "ordinary" itself is the best outcome that everyone has sacrificed their lives for.