A Poor Scholar Has No Master to Teach the Dao, Yet a Tattered Book Reveals the Southern Flower

Wei Zhenshu is a failed scholar with no spiritual roots, no master, and no fate with immortality. He lodges in a dilapidated private school, subsisting on three moldy, tattered books. The world laughs at him as utterly useless, yet amid the warmth and coldness of human relationships, he lives out the truth of the Dao and becomes an immortal. Others cultivate immortality through spiritual energy; he does it by thinking things through. A mortal condemned to death by the whole world reads his way to immortality. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.