Lin Chen transmigrates into the world of immortal cultivation but cannot read its written language, leaving him illiterate. He relies on illustrations to cultivate and practices techniques in unconventional ways, causing the righteous sects to mistake him for a demonic cultivator and hunt him down everywhere. Yet he grows stronger with every battle, defeating righteous cultivators one after another. Eventually, he becomes the most powerful being in the cultivation world, so feared that no one dares provoke him, and both the righteous and demonic factions come to recognize him as their leader.