In 2013, eighteen-year-old Zhou Ye was playing a ranked promotion match at an internet cafe when his connection suddenly dropped.
That disconnect lasted a hundred thousand years.
He transmigrated to a cultivation world and went from an unlucky guy who couldn't even test positive for a spiritual root to the peerless Primordial Dao Ancestor of all the heavens.
A hundred thousand years later, he finally found a way to “reconnect.”
But only thirteen years had passed on Earth.
On July 30, 2026, just after Zhou Ye reunited with his old duo partner, Xu Qinghe, Classic Mode suddenly descended upon reality.
Hero inheritances, rune talents, full six-item builds, respawning at the fountain, minion waves in three lanes, dragons in the jungle...
The entire world was trying to figure out how to level up and survive.
Only Zhou Ye noticed a serious problem.
The System didn't seem to be able to manage cultivators.
[Warning: Illegal displacement detected.]
“Flying on a sword counts as displacement?”
[Warning: Seventh item detected.]
“Does a storage ring take up a slot too?”
[Warning: Suspected wallhack.]
“It's just divine sense. Have you people never cultivated immortality?”
While every player was studying the latest meta, the System had only one meta to figure out:
How on earth do you nerf this Dao Ancestor?