I Stole a Cultivator's Body in the ICU

Chen Shi, a warehouse parcel sorter. He saved two months' wages to buy his girlfriend a present, only to catch her holding someone else's hand. He got blackout drunk that night, then a car accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. His soul drifted outside the emergency room, where he watched a shadow slip into the body of the patient next door... It turned out that the dead did not always move on, and cultivators were hidden in this world. Following the clues, he found a Soul Guide and learned the Three Laws of Body Snatching: a soul must be extinguished before its body can be taken; whoever takes a body inherits its karma; forcibly taking a living body invites a backlash against the soul. He struck a deal with a man in a vegetative state who had been unconscious for three years, and waited for the chance to change bodies. But he had no idea that the unconscious patient next door had already overheard everything. He was a genuine cultivator, planning to turn the tables and take the prize for himself. On the night of the full moon, murderous intent erupted. A mortal soul killed a cultivator at the ninth Qi Refining level. When he opened his eyes, he had become that cultivator. His cultivation was all but gone, his meridians were damaged, and he was a wanted man with enemies everywhere. After a thousand years of the Dharma's decline, fellow disciples turned on one another and sects clashed over a trace of spiritual energy. While others fought over spiritual energy, he gathered people's obsessions. In a city of eight million, food was everywhere, but so were debts. The days of repaying them had begun. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.