The cosmic joke lands harder the longer you sit with it: everyone around him transcends, ascends, achieves immortality, becomes demons, reaches enlightenment, and he's still grinding the same cultivation technique in the same spot, decade after decade, century after century. One hundred thousand years of watching the world transform while he's stuck in a loop that would break anyone else, except the show finds something darkly funny in that absurdity instead of tragic. The real horror isn't failure, it's watching time itself become meaningless when you're the only thing that doesn't move.

Xu Yang has been refining qi for one hundred thousand years, ever since he became the founding disciple of the Tianlan Sect. His master ascended, his martial nephew ascended, and even the old dog guarding the sect gate ascended, while Xu Yang stayed stuck in the Qi Refining stage. Hoping to break through, he shuts himself away for ten thousand years and finally passes the 9999th level of Qi Refining. When he comes out, the cultivation world has declined and the once invincible Tianlan Sect is down to a handful of disciples and close to destruction. Xu Yang drives off powerful enemies and vows to restore the sect to its peak. As the sect grows, the reason behind his stalled cultivation comes to light bit by bit, along with a secret spanning the human, demon and immortal worlds. This long-running action fantasy ONA spans 420 episodes.