Lin Yuan is an ordinary office worker. His only special talent is using a hair dryer until it short-circuits. A fire burns him into a wuxia world. He isn’t a young master or a genius, but a beggar on the verge of starvation, with festering wounds and a stench all over him.
He wakes up and immediately runs into three thugs. Their leader raises a knife to strike. A voice pops into his head: "Knowledge System activated. Knowledge module unlocked: Basic First Aid."
It doesn’t teach martial arts or hand out divine weapons. The System does just one thing: it stuffs modern knowledge into his head, from vital points and mechanics to tactics. He has to figure out how to use it himself, and using it wrong comes with a penalty.
So he uses a stick to knock a thug down, and the broken end pierces the man’s throat. It isn’t because he can fight, but because he knows where to strike.
A one-legged veteran, a female saber wielder with a mysterious past, a half-grown child who has fled back from the northern frontier, and Lin Yuan, a transmigrator who knows a little about everything, settle in an abandoned village. They recruit people, farm, forge iron, train in martial arts, and build an intelligence network.
Master Liu wants him dead. The Canglang Tribe wants him dead. The imperial court’s hawks are watching him. Ahead lies an endless stream of enemies; behind him is a group of ordinary people who have entrusted him with their lives.
All Lin Yuan has is a broad saber forged in a blacksmith’s shop and knowledge no one in this era should possess. His goal is simple: survive, and help more people survive.
This isn’t about one man fighting his way through the world. It’s about a group of people clawing their way out of the mud and punching a hole through the sky.
