The Record of Slaying Mortals and Cultivating Immortality

When Lin Yan, a twenty-first-century enthusiast of Chinese metaphysics, picks up half of a broken jade pendant in an ancient cave on Mount Zhongnan, the wheels of fate begin to turn backward. In the narrow gap left by the exhaustion of spiritual energy in this age of declining cultivation, he navigates by feng shui and uses the art of Qimen Dunjia to knock on the gates between life and death. To his surprise, he discovers that he is the reincarnation of the last Lampbearer of the ancient Jietian Sect. As modern scientific thought collides with ancient cultivation techniques, and quantum entanglement meets the Cosmic Star Formation, Lin Yan will rebuild the path to heaven in this age of decline, where demons and monsters lie in wait, setting out to cultivate immortality as an ordinary mortal.