Shen Changsheng, a man from the 21st century, travels through time to the world of cultivation. After awakening from ten thousand years of slumber, he finds that he has lost all his spiritual power. Fortunately, he obtains the Masterly Dignity System, which summons a host of rebellious disciples, including a Demon Venerable, an obsessive and possessive female emperor, the master of a pavilion who is the richest person in the world, and a grandmaster of formations. Using the system's items to maintain his imposing image, he bluffs his disciples while secretly recovering his cultivation. Along the way, he exposes the conspiracies of the Heavenly Dao Sect and the Temple of the Gods, becoming embroiled in the debate among ten thousand sects and a grand scheme to repair the heavens. In the end, he discovers that the mastermind behind everything is none other than his eldest disciple, Cang Xuan, who was supposed to have fallen long ago.