(Not a wish-fulfillment story. An imaginative, ordinary-mortal cultivation tale. The protagonist is not a saintly do-gooder who values relationships above all. The female lead is a fake-out, and the protagonist has a rebellious streak.)
With an unknown stone bead, Lao Can's remnant soul to guide his path, Long Aotian's innate sword constitution to seize, and Xiao Yan's Nine-Revolution Golden Flame to snatch, Liu Mou rises from a cultivator with a mediocre spiritual root to become the first person from the Northern Sky Continent to ascend to the Immortal Realm!
Liu Mou!
Ancestor Liu!
Only to discover, to his dismay, that after reaching the Immortal Realm, he has been banished to guard the gate at the South Heaven Gate...
The Immortal Emperor and Immortal Lords feast and sing night after night, munching on Flat Peaches and Ginseng Fruits as their cultivation skyrockets with every passing cosmic era.
As for him, after a hundred thousand years of cultivation, his immortal power is as thin as a strand of silk...
Day after day, year after year, Liu Mou grows unbearably bored with his gatekeeping job. At last, Sun Wukong comes to cause trouble!
One blow sends the Heavenly Palace tumbling!
Another sends Liu Mou back down to the mortal realm!
This time, Liu Mou swears he would rather die than ascend again! And that is not all: he will lead the cultivators of the Three Thousand Worlds in overthrowing this exploitative Immortal Realm!
Years later, Liu Mou stands atop the Heaven-Questioning Pagoda, facing a hundred thousand celestial soldiers and waving a banner as he shouts:
Cultivators of the proletariat, unite across the world!
