Chen Fan transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes a servant disciple with a mixed bag of spiritual roots and a life as fragile as paper. Before he can even get used to his new surroundings, nine bolts of heavenly lightning strike him head-on. Even more absurdly, he survives.
Two Systems bind to him at once: one lives to get him killed and urges him to insult the elders every day; the other is obsessed with teaching the law and shows him how to use sect rules to put people in their place. Taking risks can make him rich, while obeying the law can keep him alive, so Chen Fan eagerly dances back and forth on the edge of a blade.
Isolated by the entire sect as a “jinx,” Chen Fan turns the tables: in a secret realm, he boils water to make cement and builds trenches; with a brick, he smashes the flying swords of rival sects. He wins over a spy demoness with braised pork and corrupts the will of Heaven with a game of Fight the Landlord. When he starts setting up spirit-stone banks and manipulating exchange rates in the cultivation world, everyone finally realizes that this good-for-nothing isn’t cultivating immortality. He’s using technology from a higher dimension to crush his opponents.
But the truth about the ascension passages comes to light: becoming an immortal is nothing but a scam designed to harvest people.
From lightning-struck cannon fodder to the champion who judges false gods, Chen Fan lives by one principle: in this world, even gods must obey the law.
