Ascending to Immortality in One Breath

Ascend to Immortality in One Breath

In the cultivation world, everyone follows the orthodox path to immortality: drawing in qi through spiritual roots and forming a core in the dantian. Lu Shan alone is different.

Born without spiritual roots, he cannot draw spiritual energy into his meridians. Instead, it all drills into his bones. As a laborer at Baichuan Qi Academy, he's dismissed as useless and isn't even qualified to learn the basic qi cultivation art.

But he refuses to accept that. Uncle Hu has him carry water, and he learns not to spill a drop. True Man Tie Lü has him haul stones and take beatings until his skin is torn and his flesh bruised, teaching him to bear qi. In Wind and Thunder Ravine, he listens to thunder and exhales qi, then pushes against thunder with his bare hands, learning to release it outward.

While others meditate for a year to advance one level, he runs up mountains carrying a two-hundred-jin stone lock, gets his ribs broken by an iron-bristled boar, and practices standing meditation amid lightning... He painstakingly turns his bones into a vessel for qi.

From a laborer in the back mountains to the sect's junior tournament, from the Nine Provinces of the Eastern Region to the Qi Dao debates of the Central Region, he learns a new skill from each master he meets and toughens his body anew in every land. No System, no wise old mentor, just bones that won't break no matter how much they take and a brute strength that nothing can crush.

The cultivation world says that cultivating both body and magic is a path with nine chances of death and no chance of survival. Yet Lu Shan insists on finding a third path: the body carries all qi, one breath...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.