Gu Lin, a good-for-nothing young man, unexpectedly awakens the Golden Book of Merit. Every time he eliminates an evildoer, he gains peerless martial arts techniques and breaks through multiple cultivation realms. Cutting ties with his troubled past and former romantic entanglements, he defies the odds in the academy's selection tournament. Along the way, he humiliates the prodigies of prestigious clans and sweeps through the prefectural city tournament. With his mastery of Confucianism, martial arts, and Gu cultivation, he defeats even the Brahma War Body and claims the top spot in the Holy Land tournament. From a poor-born nobody whom everyone looked down upon to a rising powerbroker of the Eastern Temple, he carves out an extraordinary path to supremacy through killing.