It is not an invincible-from-the-start story.
Eastern fantasy, alternate world, from the start, scheming, invincible.
In this cruel world of cultivation, good fortune does not fall from the sky. Only traps do!
Found a peerless divine sword? It's bait for an ancient evil weapon looking to possess you.
Met a distressed fairy by chance? She's a prime candidate to take the blame for a massacre.
The world's fortune is always in balance. Behind every stroke of luck lies a deadly price tag.
Lin Xun transmigrates into this world and awakens the Eye of Karma, which lets him see the hidden red and black threads of cause and effect behind all things.
The deadly tribulations everyone else avoids are clearly priced opportunities in his eyes;
The heaven-defying legacies everyone else covets are, to him, a one-way path to ruin.
“This jade pendant is tangled in karma. Anyone who touches it dies, but I can undo it.”
“That marriage is cursed by its red thread. Marry into that family and you'll become a sacrifice. If you want to live, it'll cost extra.”
He doesn't snatch treasures; he helps people clear the mines. He doesn't cultivate the Heartless Dao; he only seeks to have a clear conscience.
While everyone else frantically plunders fortune, Lin Xun quietly gathers the “misfortune” they have rejected and left all over the ground.
Until one day, when he reaches the summit atop the corpses of countless chosen ones, everyone realizes in horror:
The “junk” they threw away was the true divine nature all along!
