Explain This to Me: What Does It Really Mean to Cultivate Immortality?

[A Fun Cultivation Story]

Li Jing transmigrated.

He found himself in a cultivation world called the Nine Provinces.

In this world, Confucian scholars roamed the mortal realm, persuading others with reason and punching open the gates of heaven. Sword immortals forged ten thousand swords into countless weapons, unleashing overwhelming firepower with a wave of the hand. Daoists refined the stars and attained the fruits of the Dao.

But that wasn't the point.

From the start, an old Daoist elder of the Human Emperor Sect had brought him to one of the Nine Provinces' five great immortal sects, the Human Emperor Sect.

But everyone entering the Human Emperor Sect had to face the Trial of the Heart.

And this was the question on Li Jing's Trial of the Heart:

[Question: You realize that you've accidentally fallen into the hands of a pair of demonic cultivator partners. The female cultivator is fond of you, while the male cultivator hates you. How will you escape with your life?]

[Choice One: A scholar would rather die than suffer humiliation. Fight them! What cultivator among us would fear a battle!]

[Choice Two: Pretend to go along with the female demonic cultivator and become his male slave, then wait for the right moment and think up an escape plan.]

[Choice Three: Use a spell to change your gender, then seduce the male demonic cultivator in turn and sow discord between the pair.]

After Li Jing pondered for a moment, he chose the third answer and learned that it was correct.

That was when he knew the Human Emperor Sect was the right place for him.

This was a cultivation world that had already figured out the right way to cultivate, so Li Jing often felt that he might be the most normal person in all the Nine Provinces.