Qin Feng, a transmigrator from Blue Star who has spent eighteen years in this world, is a low-level follower of Qin Yanran, the Young Sect Master of the Azure Profound Sect. He accompanies her to the Ye family mansion in East Rock Town on a single mission: break off her engagement with Ye Chen, a former genius who lost all his cultivation three years ago and became a cripple. Recognizing the familiar tropes of countless trash-to-strong novels, Qin Feng realizes he is cannon fodder in the Son of Destiny’s story and expects to die soon. Just as he steps toward the door, the Great Villainous Intelligence System activates, providing daily intelligence, the ability to snatch others’ opportunities, and reward multipliers from tenfold to ten-thousandfold. The day’s intelligence is immediately refreshed: three clues appear—one white, one blue, and one gold. The gold intelligence reveals that a fragmented Saint-grade Demonic Art, the Spirit Devouring Art, is sealed at the bottom of Green Wave Lake, three hundred meters east of the Ye mansion. This is Ye Chen’s first rising opportunity, which he would accidentally discover three days later after attempting to drown himself in depression over the broken engagement.Qin Feng feigns sudden illness to excuse himself from the ancestral hall, then sneaks to the lake, dives, and retrieves the black iron box containing the tattered scroll. The sealing formation, ancient and depleted, crumbles at his touch. On seizing the technique, the system triggers a ten-thousandfold return, transforming the fragment into the Emperor-grade Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art. This supreme cultivation technique can devour all things in heaven and earth—essence of sun, moon, stars, spiritual energy, divine artifacts, physique origins, bloodlines—rather than merely absorbing living beings’ cultivation like the Spirit Devouring Art. At great accomplishment, it allows one to swallow an entire world and refine its laws into an eternal Dao Foundation.Returning to the hall, Qin Feng resumes his dull demeanor. The engagement-breaking scene unfolds: Qin Yanran coldly declares Ye Chen unworthy and offers a Rune Engraving Pill as compensation. Ye Zhan, the Ye patriarch, rages at the humiliation, but Elder Sun, a Formation Realm powerhouse, unleashes pressure to silence him. Ye Chen, driven by fury, smashes the pill, verbally divorces Qin Yanran, and vows to ascend to the Azure Profound Sect within five years to repay the humiliation a hundredfold. Qin Yanran, disgusted by his defiance, orders Qin Feng to teach him a lesson. Without hesitation, Qin Feng slaps Ye Chen twice, then delivers a cruel speech: “Five years? You think you’re worthy of saying five years? ... Some people, you can never afford to offend in your lifetime. Trash.” He thus solidifies his role as a direct antagonist to the Son of Destiny, while secure in the knowledge that with the system’s intelligence, he can preemptively seize every key opportunity Ye Chen would otherwise obtain, beginning with the Spirit Devouring Art now replaced by a far greater power.
