Li Yao is a genius with his hands but spiritually broke, so he does what any desperate cultivator would: he steals 40,000 years of someone else's knowledge and still bombs the entrance exam. The show moves past the obvious underdog setup the second you realize the real problem isn't talent or effort, it's that he's fundamentally misaligned with how cultivation works. What carries you through is watching someone rebuild themselves from honest failure instead of coasting on a cosmic cheat code, frame by frame, refining not just weapons but who they actually are.

Li Yao is a gifted weapon refiner in a futuristic world where people cultivate their power, but his weak spiritual development keeps him stuck at a bottleneck he cannot get past. By chance he comes into forty thousand years of cultivation knowledge, yet even with that advantage he still misses the joint entrance examination. Encouraged by his friends and mentors, he leans on his own willpower to win back a chance at the exam and pursue his dream of becoming a weapon refiner. The 16 episodes blend action, fantasy and science fiction.