Ye Bufan accidentally saves Xiao Linxian, the Dao Sect's Holy Maiden, who has been struck by a deadly poison, and seizes the opportunity to become her disciple. Although he is found to possess an inferior spiritual root, he awakens a cultivation technique simplification system. Drinking hot water allows him to cultivate mental techniques, eating goji berries lets him practice divine palm techniques, and snapping a tree branch grants him insight into peerless swordsmanship. To make his master honor their wager—if he wins the Prodigy Gathering and breaks through to the Nascent Soul Realm within one month, she will grant him any condition he wishes—he plays the fool while hiding his true strength, defeats every prodigy, protects the sect, saves his master, and eliminates powerful enemies. In the end, he fulfills the wager, and his ice-cold master finally lets down her guard and becomes his cultivation partner. But an even greater storm is approaching the Nine Provinces.