Dong Tianyi came to Jinbei looking for a job and hoping to make a decent life for himself.
He found work at a courier company called Anywhere Express. He thought it was an ordinary delivery company. The pay was just over three thousand yuan a month. Money would be tight, he figured, but at least life would be stable.
Then one night, he heard a mad laugh from next door: “Hahaha! This Daoist has made it!”
The wall exploded, eerie light poured through, and a charred hand reached for him.
At death’s door, he instinctively recited a mantra he had memorized back when he was an edgy teenager: “Golden Light Traversal.”
He turned into a streak of light and vanished from his rented room in Beichen District, Jinbei City.
Three minutes later, the North China Bureau of Abnormal Affairs sounded the alarm.
And so Dong Tianyi’s peaceful career as a courier came to an end.
He discovered that he had transmigrated to a world that seemed familiar, yet wasn’t quite the same. The place names didn’t match, his memories were off, and the Thirty-Six Heavenly Powers mantras he had memorized for fun in high school actually worked in this world.
The problem was, he only knew how to recite them, not how to use them.
He couldn’t remember the full mantras, his hand signs were wrong, and his qi was pitifully weak. Other people cultivated through hard training; he did it like an archaeologist, digging fragmented memories out of his own mind one by one, piecing them together, testing them, and correcting his mistakes.
Worse still, the madman next door who had nearly killed him, Ji Shan, had set his sights on him. Ji Shan practiced a flawed forbidden technique that let him devour other people’s qi, but he couldn’t digest it, leaving him half-monster. He needed the secret inside Dong Tianyi to save his life.
The righteous sects suspect him, the All-Sex Sect covets him, and the Company keeps him under surveillance.
Everyone thinks he possesses peerless skills.
Dong Tianyi is on the verge of tears. “I’m telling you, I really don’t know the Eight Extraordinary Skills. Do you believe me?”
