wǒ dāng wàn'è yuān lǎodà nàxiē nián

Su Yu was blind and had lost one of his three hun.(1) From childhood, he’d gone without his parents’ affections and suffered from bullying within his family. His body’s sole value lay in his spiritual marriage contract with the genius of Xize’s Gu family. Alas, on the day he came of age, his spiritual contract was destroyed, and his last exploitable worth within the family disappeared along with it. After being pushed off a cliff, he fell directly into a profound abyss.

With this fall, Su Yu lost his memory, but his innate spiritual eyes awakened.

***

In the middle of nowhere, in a strange and changeful, bewildering town…all were wandering ghosts with no place to rest. The ghosts stared at the newly arrived food as tigers did their prey—a blind mortal with soft skin and tender flesh, quite handsome to look at as well—but when they bared their fangs, they unwittingly became the blind man’s underlings.

He was dressed in rags, his hazy grey eyes seemed to have no focus, and his words were merciless and ice-cold: “Want to redeem yourselves? It’s simple. Work to atone for your sins.”

The ghosts later discovered the so-called redemption—

Lesser evils in one’s lifetime meant labour for ten years.

Greater evils in one’s lifetime meant rotting in prison.

Their black-hearted boss didn’t only catch ghosts, he even caught demonic beasts from the neighbouring Xianling Township. In the end, he even captured Tianlu Mountain’s head disciple!

***

Xize’s Gu Zizhou, Tianlu Mountain’s head disciple whom everyone respected, was a renowned young sword immortal in the cultivation world. Alas, when he was down and out, he encountered another’s machinations and fell into the Abyss of All Evil.

Yet when he opened his eyes, several forsaken souls gathered around him, skilfully jotting down with brush and ink in hand.

“Where’s your ancestral home? What evil deeds have you done? Did you misstep or were you pushed down by an enemy?”

“You’re foolish ah. Of course you must’ve been pushed down by your enemy. This sort of work won’t last long. If it isn’t up to the Boss’s standards, you might even need to shell out money.”

“Boss you’re here, this is a newcomer, take a look at ’em!”

Gu Zizhou looked up, catching sight of a youth in blazing red clothes in the distance. His eyes were covered by gauze, and his complexion pale. With just a glimpse of the figure, the spiritual contract in the depths of his soul relaxed.

The blind youth: “What do they look like?”

A little ghost: “Boss, he’s passable, maybe capable of acting as a watchman for our Abyss of All Evil.”

Gu Zizhou: “?”

Author’s Postscript:

Fickle shou x sword cultivator gong, an upgrade flow plot, with the lead’s growth.(2)

Cultivation Stages: qi refining, foundation building, golden core, nascent soul, deity transformation, void piercing, great ascension, heavenly tribulation.

The protagonist acquires the Abyss of All Evil in chapter 15, from where the second volume takes off.

Content tags: Proud Son of Heaven, Upgrade Flow, Eastern Fantasy, Growth, Drama, Beauty, Strong, Miserable.

One-sentence summary: The story of a downtrodden young man ascending to immortality.

Meaning: Life is full of hardships and ups and downs, if you never give up and never retreat, you will move forward indomitably, and will be wherever the wind blows.(3)

(1) 三魂 (sān hún) – lit. three souls; refers to the view of the human soul in Taoism, where the ‘Three Hun and Seven Po’ together animate the body. When the hun and po are in harmony, the human body is healthy.

(2) Where the protagonist starts as a loser, experiences various setbacks, gains ‘experience’ from them like in video games, and then ‘levels up’ and gets stronger.

(3) 所向披靡 (Wherever the wind blows) – an idiom meaning ‘invincible’ or ‘unrivalled’; It is a metaphor for how wherever power reaches, the wind defeats all of one’s obstacles and enemies.