Jiang Chen, a foundation-building cultivator from Kunlun, receives his master's commission to descend the mountain for training and heads to Xicheng to fulfill an early betrothal. He makes a living by setting up a street stall in the ancient city, successively defusing arrays, dismantling underground syndicates, and crushing various martial arts experts with his cultivation. Befriending Su Xiao, Yang Zhicai, and others, he continuously reaps huge rewards, searches everywhere for high-quality jade, and plans to build a spirit-gathering array to compensate for the mortal world's thin spiritual energy and breach his cultivation realm. Along the way, he encounters revenge-seeking enemies and antique-faction clashes, dealing with various worldly disputes while gathering cultivation opportunities, tempering his state of mind in the mundane world, and steadily advancing the task entrusted by his master.