[One Day of Training Equals One Year of Progress] [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] [Decisive and Ruthless, Not a Do-Gooder]
Gu Chang Geng is seventy years old, an old man who tends the fire in his sect's medicinal herb garden.
On the night of his birthday, he awakens a destiny: [Late Bloomer: One day of training equals one year!]
Others take five years to get started; he reaches perfection in a single night. Others get stuck at a bottleneck until they cough up blood; he breaks through with a yawn.
From then on:
The Enforcement Elder sees him carrying a lock: This old man is unfathomable.
The demonic cult's enchantress sees him closing a door: This old man has some tricks.
The one hundred and eight bandits of Blackwind Stronghold see him sweeping the floor: Run!!
Nobody knows that the old man who docks his monthly wages by day is the Nightfall Man, whose fire poker strikes fear into the martial world by night.
Years later, powerful beings from across the heavens kneel throughout the herb garden, begging Ancestor Gu to lend them his aid.
The old man crouches by the stove to add another log, then slowly gets to his feet.
"Make way, the medicine is about to burn."
