The Woodcutter's Axe Cuts Off the Path to Immortality

In the world of Xuanhuang, it is an ironclad rule that mortals cannot cultivate immortality. The protagonist, Lu Yan, is deemed a cripple because his innate spirit meridians are incomplete. But by chance, he awakens the "Mortal Dao Seed," which makes the practice of the Confucian Five Constant Virtues (benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and integrity) the foundation of cultivation, allowing him to draw the vast, righteous energy of heaven and earth with a mortal heart. When he uses a woodcutter's knife to sever a cultivator's flying sword, the Heavenly Dao unleashes an unprecedented "Gray Tribulation"...