If you had spent a thousand years cultivating the Dao in the Upper Realm, using your exceptional talent and diligent cultivation to pass countless trials and reach perfection, only to discover overnight that you'd fallen into some barren plane in the Lower Realm, your Dao body transformed into that of an ordinary boy, damaged on top of that, with all your cultivation gone, how would you feel?
Ye Hong: I was looking for a troublesome friend and got caught up in an undeserved disaster. No matter, this eye condition is only a minor ailment, and I can heal it in no time. But why is this Lower Realm so impoverished? Am I supposed to spend the rest of my life blind?
Ye Hong: There's no spiritual energy. How can I use my mind-reading and qi-sensing talents, let alone my many Daoist arts? And how am I supposed to repair my soul? ...I helped someone by chance and got a huge amount of spiritual energy in return. So that's how the rules here work: resolve resentment and earn merit to cultivate?
Ye Hong: I have to solve cases, deal with supernatural incidents, and take exams to get into university. Young people in the mortal world have it rough. I've found my troublesome friend, but he's forgotten everything from his past life and is plagued by misfortune. Oh well, helping him will earn me merit too.
Ji Xuansheng: At first, he was a troublesome guy on the verge of going blind. Then his eyes got better, he somehow moved into my house, and he keeps bringing along a bizarre AI.
Ji Xuansheng: Qingyao Upper Realm, Pavilion Master of the Sword Pavilion? I believe in science, so don't talk to me about mysticism and cultivation... But all sorts of unbelievable things keep happening around him, clearing up my doubts and getting me out of danger. ...I feel this familiar yet mysterious pull, and the violence and confusion in my heart have finally found a place to belong.
When their sworn enemy, a demonic overlord, appears and sets his long-brewing scheme in motion, the two who are cultivating merit in this life must rise up and find a way through the crisis.
It's mostly everyday life, constantly hopping between the bustle of the mortal world and the ethereal world of immortals.
Theme: Good and evil are ultimately rewarded, and the divide between righteousness and wickedness is as vast as the distance between clouds and mud. Temper your heart in the mortal world, and in the end you will attain perfection.
This is my first time to catch up on the update. Good luck to the author.