The filth in the dark is gradually growing, and the departed gods and Buddhas are about to return to their places.

The world fell into chaos and order began to lose balance.

All living beings suffer, how can we be free? Only through self-salvation!

At the beginning of the troubled times, Li Ye traveled through time with a proficiency/positive and negative feedback panel.

Begin as a blacksmith's apprentice and gradually uncover the deepest secrets of this world.

【Copying the "Supreme Elder Lord’s Art of Longevity" once grants +1 Vitality】

At that time, Chen An held a lowly official post merely a proofreader in the Eastern Library. Day after day, he copied scriptures, convinced his life would pass in mediocrity. Yet unexpectedly, he awakened a divine gift: so long as he transcribed or replicated texts, drawings, or paintings, he would receive tangible rewards. From basic attributes at the outset, to peerless martial arts that dominated the jianghu, and even immortal arts offering glimpses of eternal life all flowed from the pages of books.

Chen An understood: the ancients had spoken true. Within books lie golden houses; within books dwell beauties fair as jade.

...Later,

Chen An once hid divine techniques he’d gleaned from books back within their pages, unleashing legends upon the martial world.

With a single stroke, he wrote the character for "rain" (雨), ending years of drought across three hundred miles of the Qin River basin.

With a sweep of his brush, he conjured an immortal’s paradise, coveted by kings and generals alike.

The world sought transcendence, chanting "seek the immortals, seek the immortals."

Little did they know

Immortals walked among them