Waking up badly injured, Lu Mingye finds himself an apprentice mountain gatherer at the foot of Taihuang Mountain.
His master forbids him from entering the mountain and refuses to teach him martial arts, insisting that he live an ordinary life.
That is, until he discovers that everything he experiences each day is assessed with a [Settlement Rating]
[Today's Settlement]
[Ventured alone into danger, going more than twenty li deep into Taihuang Mountain. Rating: Admirably brave, but reckless.]
[Fortuitously found a five-leaf mountain ginseng plant. Rating: A little lucky.]
[Disturbed the lingering spirit of a ruined shrine, nearly had his soul devoured, and fled for his life. Rating: Quick-witted, but lacking a solid foundation.]
[Exhausted in body and mind, he slipped off a cliff and suffered multiple injuries. Rating: Utterly spent, yet escaped death by a hair's breadth.]
[With a body on the verge of death, he forced himself to make it back to the mountain entrance. Rating: Remarkably resilient and determined.]
[Overall Rating: A-]
[Reward: Three drops of Moonlight Spirit Elixir]
When his master is forced to venture back into the depths of the mountain over twenty taels of “tax silver,”
“This time, I’m the one going into the mountain.”
