This book is also known as: What Should I Do If I Get Stuck Halfway Through Ascending? Urgent, Waiting Online.
Daoists speak of the nine heavens and ten lands; Buddhists speak of countless grains of sand. Given an infinite number of possibilities, even the tiniest chance is bound to come true. Such as cultivating the Dao. Such as ascending. Such as getting stuck halfway through ascension.
"What can I do? I'm desperate too!" He You sat in a little roadside tavern in the capital, guzzling from a wine jug. He struck a pillar with his sword and sang at the top of his lungs, only to be hauled off by the Imperial Guards and thrown in jail.
"You're doing this just to target me!" He You stood on a boat, shivering in the wind. The person opposite him smiled faintly and swept a fan across the river, cleaving it in two. "That's what you get for running your mouth!"
"You want me to raise a child?" He You held a sleeping little boy and stared in disbelief at the note on the table. Yet that scoundrel was dead, to the envy of countless people.
"I'll come back." Lying in a grave beneath a peach tree, He You made a vow no one knew of, his heart full of hope. Those who should have known and those who shouldn't all stood before the grave, weeping.
Back at the beginning of it all.
"An incarnation technique? Might as well give it a try." Trapped in an unknowable place, He You indifferently cut off piece after piece of his soul and sent them into the mortal world. "Whether I live or die, it doesn't matter anymore."
