The Great Emperor Was Once a Commoner

[Smart Protagonist] + [No Harem Plot] + [No System] + [No Transmigration] + [No Showing Off] + [No Contrived Drama]

Chen Nanxing was an ordinary mortal who had suffered from a terminal illness since childhood. All he wanted was to stay alive, and he happened to embark on the path of cultivation. Kind by nature, he witnessed the cunning and deceit of the cultivation world, where good and evil were hard to tell apart, only to realize he had long since become entangled in it. The path of cultivation, it turned out, was even harder to fathom than the mortal world. Follow Chen Nanxing as he sees through its treachery and attains the Great Dao.