The Path to Becoming the Master of Mount Hua

Mount Hua was the collective name for a range of endlessly stretching peaks beyond Qingyang Town. The mountain range spread across a hundred miles, with craggy summits of varying heights, covering an immense area dozens of miles wide from east to west. All these peaks together were known as Mount Hua.

On the edge of a cliff atop the main peak of Mount Hua, a youth clad in blue sat with his legs dangling over the abyss, idly swinging them back and forth. This youth was Jiang Yan, the head disciple of the Mount Hua Sect. However, he was no longer the Jiang Yan he once was. Now, inhabiting his body was the soul of a university student from the twenty-first century, a gaming enthusiast who had, in a twist of fate, transmigrated into this world while playing a game, taking over the life of this namesake disciple under Master Ding Yuan, the sect leader of Mount Hua—a minor sect subordinate to the third-grade sect, Golden Flame Sect.

The Mount Hua Sect was a small and struggling school. Including the sect leader Ding Yuan, there were only six disciples across two generations, and with two elderly servants, it was barely a collection of "three or four cats," as the saying goes.

“Senior brother, senior brother!” came the call of a porcelain-doll-like young girl, stumbling hurriedly from afar. Spotting Jiang Yan perched on the cliff edge, she didn’t dare approach, but called out to him from a distance.

This little girl was Yun Ying, Jiang Yan’s fifth junior sister. She had rushed over because disciples of the parent sect, Golden Flame Sect, had ar