After dying suddenly from overwork, AI engineer Lu Yan transmigrates into the body of a menial servant tending a ruined furnace at a cultivation sect. After three years of training, he still hasn't even begun cultivating, and his meridians are already injured. Worse, in three days he'll have to crawl into a ruined alchemy furnace that could go out of control at any moment. Everyone says his aptitude is terrible. Lu Yan opens the battered Qi Guiding Art and has the AI that came with him read it. [The circulation order in the general principles contradicts the detailed instructions.] He looks at the words “still hurts” scrawled in the margin and falls silent for a long while. For three years, he thought he simply hadn't tried hard enough.
Taichu knows nothing about cultivation, so Lu Yan teaches it from the beginning. Incomplete techniques, discarded magical artifacts, lost alchemy recipes... The things others have abandoned gradually become the resources he needs to cultivate. From the ruined furnace grounds to the lands between the sects, he meets a healer willing to share his hardships, a swordsman who would trust him with his back, and fellow travelers who choose to join hands with him despite knowing the dangers. Then one day, Taichu finishes reading an immortal scripture revered as the supreme classic. [A contradiction has been found.]
Lu Yan closes the book and looks toward the statue of the Dao Ancestor enshrined in the hall.
This time, who should he ask for answers?
