What? They Were All Real?

In a world reshaped by the sudden resurgence of spiritual energy, Chen Jiang stumbles upon a mysterious artifact—the Formless Mask—which grants him the ability to enter various "instance worlds." Complete the missions, and rewards await. His first journey casts him as a humble cowherd in the countryside, where fate leads him to marry a celestial maiden from an immortal sect. But she practices the Heartless Dao, and her path demands she slay her husband to attain enlightenment. Faced with this betrayal, Chen Jiang merely smiles and says, "May your immortal journey be smooth and unimpeded." To his surprise, she hesitates—and vows that she will find him again, no matter what. In another incarnation, he becomes a revered Buddhist monk, reincarnated for nine lifetimes, spending eight hundred years imprisoning a demoness who once brought calamity to the world—all in the hope of converting her. Yet when he finally sets her free, she remains unrepentant, seeking revenge and vowing to drag him down from Buddhahood. "Nine lives are not enough," she declares. "A thousand, ten thousand—I will never let you go." Chen Jiang shrugs off these encounters as mere illusions. But when he exits the instance worlds and returns to reality, he discovers the horrifying truth: every word they spoke was real. Now, they are all coming for him—and his quiet life is about to become anything but.