Cultivating the Immortal Way

A fox spirit who secretly ran away from her mountain home clings to a cold man who nearly took her life with a single sword strike. The sickly man everyone knows about just refuses to die and has even become the emperor's trusted aide. A scheme that should have been foolproof is undone when a fox spirit, bored to an extreme, shatters his composure. A young prince of the imperial family has a strange, unpredictable personality, and his little servant lives in misery at his master's side. A brooding man somehow becomes sworn brothers with two men, one cold-blooded and the other a smiling fox. After getting to know them, the rules he has followed since childhood become utterly worthless. And what of the women in the brothels? When they lavish their charms, are they in love with someone, or eyeing the silver in a man's purse? The powerful minister, The Outcast who stands below only one person and above ten thousand, plots rebellion. Can the old schemer, who has calculated every move, really outwit these eccentric people?