Laying Low Until the Heavenly Dao Collapsed

Li Gou just wants to retire.

After reincarnating nine times, he has carved the word “cautious” into his bones. On the surface, he's a good-for-nothing talisman maker running a stall in the slums. In secret, he's the mastermind behind the cultivation world's largest intelligence network. His only plan in this life is to save up enough spirit stones and bow out for good.

Lu Chaoge won't let him retire.

As the youngest Star Envoy of the Shichen Society, Lu Chaoge's mission is to hunt down “life thieves”: cultivators who seek to deceive the Heavenly Dao and steal eternal life. At the top of his hit list is a target codenamed “Thousand-Faced Yama.”

He doesn't know this person is Li Gou.

He has even less idea that every clue he follows and every secret identity he uncovers is a flaw Li Gou deliberately let slip, all to lead this young man, whose sense of justice is far too strong, step by step toward an even more terrifying truth:

The Heavenly Dao itself is a prison.

As Lu Chaoge's faith begins to crumble and the Eye of the Heavenly Dao unleashes a world-ending calamity, this cat-and-mouse pair must make a choice:

Keep fighting each other, or join forces and deceive the Heavenly Dao itself?