A mystery novelist who cares only about attaining immortality unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of cultivation as Shushan Sect's junior disciple. Rejecting the romantic entanglements that plague the cultivation world, he spends five years setting up surveillance and calculating every possible outcome. Using careful schemes and foresight to guide events and predict cause and effect, he coldly dismantles his fellow disciples' obsessive romantic delusions, exposes one familiar web-novel trope after another, and carefully avoids every trap, all to protect himself and walk the path to immortality.