The protagonist, Lin Yuan, transmigrates into a remote town in a cultivation world and takes over the body of an orphan who has just died.
His System activates and grants him Golden Core strength outright, but displays his cultivation as Body Tempering, third layer.
The town's three great clans are locked in a struggle. Mistaking the protagonist for a pushover, someone comes to "borrow" his home.
That night, all thirty-seven members of that family die silently in their sleep. Cause of death: the entire family suffered cultivation deviation.
The protagonist moves to a neighboring city and continues living as an unknown rogue cultivator.
Realms: Body Tempering -> Qi Condensation -> Foundation Establishment -> Golden Core -> Nascent Soul -> Deity Transformation -> Void Refinement -> Body Integration -> Great Ascension -> Tribulation Transcendence -> ...
