The day Qian Jin'an was cast out of the Pill Sect, all he took with him was a broken wooden talisman.
He became the most useless back-alley doctor in Luocheng Town. He couldn't cultivate or afford a meal, and the townsfolk called him Qian the Good-for-Nothing behind his back.
But strange things kept happening: the weasel spirit wouldn't enter his courtyard, whatever lurked at the bottom of the well feared him, and the prodigies of the immortal sects knelt and begged him for a pill.
He never fought anyone. He got by on lies, fooling demons, ghosts, and immortals alike. Yet every lie protected the humble rhythms of mortal life.
While the immortal sects fought over the Heavenly Dao, he guarded the mortal world. When the Immortal Dao collapsed and the myriad immortals fell, the world finally learned that this guardian of the town's spiritual veins had never lost.
