On the Canglan Continent, looks determine status, while power decides who stands above whom.
Everyone pursues fine clothes, immortal robes, and dazzling treasures, valuing polish, respectability, and orthodox cultivation, while looking down on shabby commoners and despising fallen, impoverished families.
Yet everyone knows that the more ostentatious one is, the stronger one’s inner demons grow; the more polished one appears, the weaker one’s Dao heart becomes.
Only those in tattered clothes who have weathered life’s hardships can preserve an innocent heart and glimpse the true meaning of the Heavenly Dao!
Brother Sharp, an urban legend, has seen through life’s joys and sorrows. He carries a melancholic air and the weathered, free-spirited bearing of a lone wanderer.
One day, he transmigrates and takes over the body of the most miserable cast-off son of the Cheng family of Canglan.
The original owner was dressed in rags, powerless and without influence, shunned by his family and humiliated by his peers. To make matters worse, his fiancée publicly broke off their engagement, and he died full of resentment.
From that day on, the world has no more lowly good-for-nothings, only the lone, sharp-witted immortal!
He awakens the ancient wordless heavenly tome, the "Primordial Chaos Heart Sutra"!
He cultivates neither spiritual energy nor the physical body, but focuses solely on the state of his heart, forging his own path!
[Melancholy Gaze] See through the world’s illusions and spot an enemy’s weaknesses with a single glance!
[Eclectic Presence] Dead branches and leaves, scraps of cloth and broken metal: all can become peerless treasures!
[Innocent Heart] Unaffected by demons, impervious to illusions, and immune to all spiritual arts!
The city’s prodigies dress in fine silks and call themselves righteous masters, freely mocking his ragged clothes and lowborn ways.
Little do they know
You cultivate the worldly path to immortality. I cultivate the heart of heaven and earth!
You wear immortal robes to look noble. I wear rags to hold the mountains and rivers in check!
You flaunt your power with treasures. I slay prodigies with dead grass!
As everyone looks on with scorn, Brother Cheng strolls alone with a blade of grass in his mouth, shattering worldly prejudice and crushing every false gentleman!
From then on, Canglan gains one more legend
