On the first day after transmigrating, Lin Tao is dumped by his fiancee.
Before the meridian-testing stone, he is judged to have "a mixed Five Elements spirit root, a good-for-nothing." At the broken engagement gathering, the young lady of the Yun family doesn't even show her face.
No one knows that the blank fragment of a stele his grandfather left him, tucked against his chest,
is one of the Nine Ancient Heaven-Subduing Steles lost to the world.
The stele spirit opens its eyes and says its first words: "You little brat, you're so noisy."
From then on, the good-for-nothing stops pretending:
The Fire Tome reveals its chapters, and his body tempering advances three stages at once. At the family tournament, the lone son of the Western Courtyard wins his way to the top.
The whole city mocks his mixed spirit root, but he only smiles faintly. "You see the brightness. I see the world."
While others cultivate qi, he cultivates "force, essence, and spirit": matter, energy, and information. A modern man's trump cards become cheat codes in another world. Alchemy is balancing an equation, arrays are circuits, and divine sense is code. Others know what happens, but he knows why.
The silver-haired saintess with skin like ice records his name on a rainy night;
The red-clad demonic cultivator, as fiery as flame, is both his natural enemy and his destined calamity.
The broken engagement is only the beginning: a hidden hand lies behind his false meridians, the old servant guarding the stele is murdered, and the assassins who ambush him wear the abyssal sigil on their clothes. More than one person has their eye on this stele.
Years later, when all nine steles are gathered and roars shake the depths of the Ten Thousand Demons Abyss, the Three Realms finally remember what happened back then:
That good-for-nothing who was dumped,
alone, suppressed the Ten Thousand Demons Abyss.
