The cultivation world's most prestigious annual competition, the Grand Tournament of Ten Thousand Sects, is underway. The prodigies of every sect are scrambling for spirit veins, cultivation techniques, and resource quotas.
And beneath the tournament is a neglected "bad debt channel" that nobody wants to enter. Each sect bundles up its most indebted and least favored disciples and sends them in to repay their debts through competition, with no one else responsible for whether they live or die.
Lu Zhaowei, the "Midas Touch" of Baicao Group, is saddled with a bad debt that someone has tampered with and forced into the channel. Her team consists of four other pieces of "scrap": an ace sword cultivator cut by risk control, a credit blacklisted disciple saddled with the biggest scapegoat's burden, a human heavy machine used as collateral, and a mute, blacklisted puppet.
The same secret realm, the same points system. The prodigy teams trade points for a way forward; their team trades points for their lives. Their debt repayment quota is locked, so the debt can never be paid off.
But they insist on surviving. They insist on winning. The whole internet starts out betting they'll die in three days, then watches five pieces of bad debt exploit loophole after loophole in the rules.
Others cultivate and seek enlightenment. They cultivate to pay off their debts. And what they have to do is turn this game that "doesn't allow people to cultivate" on its head.
