While everyone else spent their three years of high school preparing for the college entrance exam, Jiang Shan spent his becoming a Sword Immortal. "What do you mean, now that I've attained the Way of the Sword Immortal, the immortal path has been abandoned and the world's running a new version?" The man-eating, shape-shifting Tai Sui demon was refined into a "Real Immortal Beauty" silicone doll. Monthly sales hit 100,000, with a 99% approval rating. Every buyer wrote the same four words in the order notes: "Real dual cultivation experience." An ancient sword spirit was sealed inside a bronze sword in a museum, blasted by the flashes of tens of thousands of visitors every day. Its request for labor arbitration was rejected on the grounds that it was not a natural person. The alchemy cultivators who kept up with the times switched to making health supplements, with annual sales of tens of billions, and were preparing for an IPO. Jiang Shan was puzzled. If nobody cultivates immortality anymore, what exactly have I cultivated into? Everyone else: "You have the nerve to ask? Who ever heard of a sword cultivator wielding a 9mm pistol?"
