Can't Read, Can't Cultivate Immortality?

Lin Ye, an orphan boy deep in the mountains, has his eyes tempered by a thousand-year spirit tree, losing his ability to read but awakening an innate Dao Eye. Rune arrays that others can only grasp after poring over Daoist scriptures, he can instantly see through to the essence of the Dao. When he goes to the Qingyun Sect for its entrance trial, his illiteracy makes him a laughingstock among fellow disciples. Outer disciple Zhang Hao repeatedly torments him, insisting that without literary knowledge no one can cultivate immortality. Only Su Wan notices his unusual gift. Breaking free from the sect's rigid cultivation rules, Lin Ye uses his Dao Eye to break formations and comprehend the Dao, growing through the trials and conflicts, using his strength to shatter the world's prejudice, and carving out a unique path of defiance against the immortal way.