In a cultivation world where the strong rule, Shen An chooses a path no one believes in: gathering intelligence. While others shut themselves away in their caves for a hundred years to break through a bottleneck, he's chatting with the tea stall owner. While others fight to the death in the arena for cultivation techniques, he's helping a street vendor push his cart and casually fishing for information. Years later, when the heads of great sects, clan leaders, and grand elders sit down at the same negotiating table and turn on one another, they discover that someone has already put a price on all their trump cards. That someone is sitting at a tea stall on the corner, cheerfully telling the owner, “Add another plate of sunflower seeds.”
