After transmigrating to the world of cultivation, Ji Xun awakens a heaven-defying comprehension System.
The System tells him, “Stick with me: Golden Core in a year, ascension in three.”
Ji Xun believes it.
That is, until he joins the handyman hall of Azure Cloud Sect and meets the young master who has been sweeping the grounds for thirty years.
The master glances at him and says, “That thing in your head is a little noisy.”
Then, with one slap, he smashes the System.
His master hands him an axe. “Starting today, you’re chopping wood.”
Ji Xun thinks his master is messing with him.
Until one day, instinct honed by chopping wood lets him send the sect leader’s personal disciple flying with a single sword strike.
The whole crowd falls silent.
His master takes a sip of tea below the stage. “Well, all that wood chopping paid off.”
This is the story of a System forced to learn how to play dead.
It is also the story of Xie Buyan, a master who has lived for three thousand years, using an axe and tea to snatch his disciple back from the System.
Only later does Ji Xun learn that even his transmigration was arranged by his master.
“The semi-truck that hit you? I was driving it.”
“…”
“What, thinking of betraying your master and destroying your ancestors?”
