[Fantasy Brainstorming] [Urban Cultivation] [One Female Lead] [Light Comedy] [Partly Power Fantasy] [Primarily Eastern Fantasy with Some Western Fantasy]
In class, the teacher said, "Cultivators have to work themselves to the bone. Even if you can't outwork everyone else, you still have to keep at it. It's the only way to achieve immortality."
But I worked myself to the bone, and the immortals were the ones who lived forever. I'm done burning incense and worshipping Buddha. I'm going to kick the gods down from their pedestals. I want to get something out of all this hard work. I want fairness!
Han Ye was born with an imbalance in his three souls. His Heavenly Soul is an ancient Zhulong, his Earthly Soul is the spirit of the Nine Li Furnace, and his Human Soul is weak. He must keep improving his cultivation to balance all three. Otherwise, if one soul grows too dominant, all three will suffer.
The story explores many different paths to immortality. In the end, he discovers that the gods and Buddhas throughout the heavens have been deceiving mortal cultivators: the immortals' eternal lives come at the cost of mortals' short ones. The human race isn't actually human. Merfolk have no gods and live for five hundred years. Beastfolk have no gods and can live for three hundred. Humans worship gods, and reaching a hundred is rare.
Raise ghosts, raise demons, refine zombies, and follow the righteous path through forbidden arts.
The story reaches beyond China and looks out across the world.
