In a world where the immortal path has been twisted by things beyond comprehension, cultivating immortality is a descent into an abyss of madness and mutation.
Lu Li, a lowly servant disciple, enters the forbidden grounds of Qinglan Sect on behalf of an arrogant inner disciple, simply to survive. At the bottom of a gloomy cliff, he accidentally finds a charred bone fragment etched with dizzying, twisted characters. It is a remnant page of the Strange Immortal Register.
Misfortune follows. A raging fever, hallucinations, bizarre patterns spreading beneath his skin like living creatures... To his horror, Lu Li discovers that the fragment is dragging him into a horrifying, inhuman abyss. Worse still, only by cutting his skin and releasing polluted black blood can he temporarily suppress the corruption and draw a trace of cold, wicked power from it.
The curse is also power. To survive, he must first go mad.
The Strange Immortal Register is a forbidden key, allowing Lu Li to glimpse the truth of the world: “Dao worms” wriggle inside his fellow disciples, filthy runes flow through the mountain-protecting formation, and the lofty elders have long since become vessels for twisted phantoms... The so-called path to immortality is nothing but a hunting ground laid by the “Strange Immortals.”
To find a glimmer of hope and stem the worsening mutations within him, Lu Li is forced down the dead-end path of searching for the other pages. He must:
Tread carefully between using the bone fragment's wicked power and preserving the last of his humanity.
Evade the sect's upper ranks, deeply corrupted by the Strange Immortals; the Strange Immortal cult, fanatically seeking the Strange Immortal Register; and the terrifying presence awakened in the depths of the Cliff of Reflection, which now watches him.
Uncover the horrifying origins of the twisted immortal path and confront the truth of the incomprehensible “Strange Immortals,” who stand above all living things.
