It drops you into a cultivation world with no handrail: everywhere is law of the jungle, everyone is scared, and the guy at the center is Ma Yingxiong, a security guard who saves a cultivator girl and gets dragged into practicing himself. Fifteen episodes that lurch between oddly still, contemplative stretches and pacing so relentless whole threads open and evaporate before you've registered them. The real talking point is the look, a live-action and animation hybrid that produces genuinely striking frames one minute and something held together with tape the next. Nobody here gets an interior life; people are levers the plot pulls, and the plot is in a hurry. If you want a clean shonen power curve, this will make you furious. If you hunt the strange margins of Chinese ONA output, a rent-a-cop stumbling into immortal cultivation is a thing you'll bring up at 2am.

A security guard's ordinary life takes a sharp turn when he saves a young woman who is a cultivator. Ma Yingxiong lives in a modern world where cultivation is part of everyday reality, the strong prey on the weak, and nobody feels truly safe. Rescuing the girl sets him on the path of cultivation himself, almost by accident, and he begins training in a place where survival is never guaranteed. The ONA blends action, fantasy and romance across 15 episodes.