Starry, Slow, and Vast

(A long-form tale of an ordinary mortal cultivating immortality. No System, no invincibility, no female lead. Strange cultivation, two worldlines, multiple protagonists. Everyone is born the protagonist of their own story.)

A young man crawls out of an ancient, desolate grave. Outside, an earless old man has been waiting for him for thousands of years.

“This world is as you wished.”

Do people define the ways of the world, or do those ways imprison people? Life is a long, slow journey.