Cultivating Immortality as a Mortal from the Start, Only to Find Everything Is Paranormal

(Eerie + Ordinary Protagonist + Strategy + Behind the Scenes + Golden Age + the Myriad Worlds + Divine Foreshadowing)

Looking at the patriarch in Taoist robes, sitting atop a pile of corpses and ravenously devouring them, Du Bai trembled all over and asked, “What are you doing?”

The patriarch turned at his words, revealing yellow teeth and scraps of flesh at the corners of his mouth. He smiled kindly and said, “I’m...”

“Cultivating immortality!”

Seeking revenge for his murdered son and searching for the person he loves, eighty-year-old Du Bai steps into the world of cultivation. He thought he was embarking on an ordinary mortal’s path to immortality, but everything he sees is bizarre.

The Heavenly Dao’s messenger has no head, and blood drips from its wings. A deity has two heads on its chest and a snake’s head protruding from its navel. A golden toad is covered in eyes...

The gods and Buddhas fill the heavens, yet there is not a trace of immortal aura among them, only an endless strangeness beyond words or comprehension.

And where, exactly, have those who supposedly ascended gone?

And what do the worms gestating inside the golden cores represent?

The golden core breaks and the Nascent Soul forms. Yet the one who becomes immortal is the spiritual root, not the cultivator.

(Cultivation stages: Acquired, Innate, Qi Drawing, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spiritual Resonance...)