Si Yan's Tale of Immortal Cultivation

A slow-burn story that gets more terrifying the more you think about it. A vast cultivation world, no System, and rigorous logic, not mindless wish fulfillment!… In this world, cultivation is no smooth road to immortality, but a path to survival paved with flesh and blood. I, Si Yan, am a menial Qi Refining disciple of the Yaoxian Sect. I possess a time-related treasure and bear the burden of saving a friend. I once thought that the conflicts within the immortal sects were the greatest evil in the world. Then I glimpsed just the tip of the iceberg: In a valley of giant swords, nine old men are imprisoned as “sword slaves,” their lifelong cultivation and yearning used to nourish a demonic sword; The ley lines beneath the Yaoxian Sect have been quietly pinned with pitch-black formation spikes, turning the sect into a sacrifice on someone else’s formation disc; And it all points to the white-haired girl seated upon a throne of bones, and the world-ending game she set in motion with a flick of her fingers. When the nine great formations light up one after another, all living beings in this world will be no more than ants. In this desperate plight, I must fight my way through and carve out a path to survival for all humanity.