Demons and monsters run rampant, while martial arts flourish.
Gu Zhi transmigrates to Great Yong, only to become a corpse collector in Qing County, a lowly, idle commoner despised by everyone.
His status is beneath contempt, and he has no way to learn martial arts. His younger sister is frail and sickly, and he owes a gang more than twenty taels of silver in high-interest debt.
Just as Gu Zhi resigns himself to spending his life among the dead, ten years of collecting corpses finally bring him the golden finger that is rightfully his.
[Ten years of corpse aura, and the daily settlement unlocks Dao Appraisal.]
Collecting corpses earns experience. Unexpected gains can be settled, and corpses can be analyzed for martial arts techniques.
From then on, the dead everyone else avoids become, in Gu Zhi's eyes, stepping stones on the path to the pinnacle of martial arts.
Rotting Flesh Palm, Black Tiger Claw...
While others must painstakingly train for ten years to achieve anything, Gu Zhi discovers that all he needs to do is collect corpses.
"All I wanted was to survive."
"But if this world won't let the idle commoners rise..."
"Then with these hands that collect corpses, I'll carve a path to the pinnacle of martial arts!"
