[Slow Burn + Protagonist’s Growth + No Romance + Not a Traditional Cultivation Novel, Please Don’t Read Too Much Into It + Entirely Fictional]
Everyone longs for immortality.
Some hide in town, greedy for a moment’s peace.
Others venture beyond its walls, searching for the truth about eternal life.
A Yue thought things would remain uneventful forever.
But the granny who had been her only family vanished overnight.
She was forced into a conspiracy known as the pursuit of immortality.
A strange Taoist priest in the barren mountains, a brawny recluse by the coast, and people fleeing the town.
One mystery after another closed in around her, obscuring the path ahead.
As she shattered the obstacles before her and moved step by step toward the truth, the truth about immortality,
she discovered that the conspiracy was all about her.
Everyone yearns for immortality, yet no one attains it.
Everyone longs to become an immortal, yet no one can.