Heavenly Secrets as Sustenance: All My Dao Companions Are Future Empresses

I, Lou Xuanji, a 17-year-old menial servant at the very bottom of the Hehuan Sect, am being “erased” by this world. After fainting from hunger and waking up, I’m forced to bind to the [Heavenly Secrets Nurturing System]. The world turns into data and divination signs before my eyes. I can see the price of everything and foresee the karmic ties of all beings, but I’m also trapped in a desperate predicament: if my presence drops to zero, I’ll vanish. The System says I can only survive by saving those “anchors of fate.” So I save Sister Zhang, a gentle widow whose body holds an ancient mantra capable of purifying all things. I awaken Su Wanqing, the aloof young sect master, to the rule-bound power that defines the value of all things. I stop my violent senior sister, Nangong Lie, from succumbing to demonic cultivation. She commands the ultimate power to shatter every concept. Others cultivate immortality by fighting tooth and nail. I do it by “weaving.” My archenemy lays a deadly trap? I tug on the threads of karma, and his enemies “happen” to show up at just the right moment. A secret realm is filled with peril? I guide the favored child of fortune in to scout ahead. He bleeds up front while I collect treasures behind him. I never kill with my own hands, because every thread of karma I pluck with my fingertips is enough to destroy someone’s path to immortality. When the three future Empresses begin to show their brilliance at my side, and the mastermind behind the scenes frantically traces the source of every calamity, they discover in despair that the one who stirred the winds and clouds of the world and ushered them to supreme power was none other than the boy who once huddled in a ramshackle hut, nearly forgotten by the world. As for me, I simply gaze calmly toward a higher dimension. Nurture the Empresses and restore my existence. This is the equal exchange between me and this world.