Lu Chenzhou was a nobody. A cog in the machine of modern Shanghai, his life was a monotonous cycle of work and loneliness. His only escape was the vibrant, ruthless world of cultivation novels and manhua, where the strong trampled the weak and seized their destinies. He dreamed of that power, of a life where he could take what he wanted. A fatal accident at a crosswalk, a moment of blinding agony, and a cryptic offer from an unknown entity grant him his wish. He awakens in the body of a despised and crippled outer sect disciple of the heinous Blood Lotus Sect, a world where might makes right and morality is a luxury for the dead. But he is not the same Lu Chenzhou. Armed with a lifetime of knowledge from a world without qi and a mysterious, parasitic system that thrives on the most primal of acts, he is given a second chance.