A Lifetime in Pursuit of Immortality

[Traditional fantasy + mortal cultivation + not reborn + no System + tightly reasoned + no mindless plot + one heroine]

This is a world where people can cultivate immortality, but to ordinary mortals, cultivation is a distant dream. In some remote places, people don't even know that immortals exist.

The protagonist, Ye Qidong, was born in Dongning, an extremely remote mortal kingdom in the Eastern Region. After a catastrophe struck his family, its members scattered, and Ye Qidong followed his mother to a fishing village by the sea, where he expected to live out an uneventful life...

But years later, disaster struck again. Ye Qidong's mother met an untimely end, and he was found and taken back by the Ye family. Little did he know, his fate had changed forever...