Song Qi was an obscure herb-garden laborer in the back hills of Qingyun Sect. His talents were mediocre, his temperament mild, and he spent his days quietly watering flowers and feeding cranes. No one knew what far-reaching schemes lay beneath his harmless-looking exterior.
Lu Hanyuan, the sect’s eldest senior disciple, was a dazzling prodigy and the widely acknowledged successor to the position of sect leader. Yet no one imagined that he was secretly conspiring with the demons, stealing the sect’s supreme treasure, the “Primordial Dao Seed,” and preparing to defect. But the forbidden technique went awry: Lu Hanyuan and Song Qi switched souls.
Song Qi woke to find himself in possession of a genius’s body and cultivation, and had also inherited the traitor’s golden finger, hidden in his sea of consciousness: a “Heavenly Derivation Fragment” capable of deducing all methods. Meanwhile, the real traitor was trapped in Song Qi’s good-for-nothing body, unable to speak or move.
Song Qi kept quiet about what had happened. Taking on the identity of the sect’s eldest senior disciple, he pretended to be gravely injured and suffering from amnesia while gently calming everyone’s fears, handling daily life with the ease of someone making tea and tending flowers. He healed the strained relationships among his fellow disciples, dispelled the elders’ suspicions, and even gradually cleaned up the traitor’s mess. The real Lu Hanyuan could only watch as this “white on the outside, black within” fellow used his face to become the most beloved person in the entire sect.
