Struggling Up from the Bottom as a Rogue Cultivator

A low-ranking rogue cultivator possesses a rare ability: he can perceive the spiritual marrow and rhythms remaining within living beings and convert them into readings.

Trouble stirs in an unremarkable little town, and the Inspectorate quietly moves in. The old beggar on the street corner, and then the woman in white who appears across the street, both show no readings at all in Jia Zhen's field of vision.

One moment of greed is all it takes for the secret of his unique perception to begin leaking out. His once peaceful life collapses in an instant, and he is swept into a whirlpool set in motion by various factions.

He flees to Qingshi Town, but what awaits him there is certainly no safe haven.

The Inspectorate has cast its net in every direction, while the Qingyun Sect happens to offer him an opportunity, along with a death contract that leaves him solely responsible for his own life or death.

On one side are the tightly regulated resources of static rhythms; on the other, the dark secrets of transplanting living rhythms. Jia Zhen has no exceptional cultivation, and can only rely on his ability to see through rhythms, moving carefully and struggling to survive in the cracks between the powers around him.