Cultivating Immortality in Jiangcheng

To save his mother, who suffers from kidney disease, intern programmer Lin Mo accidentally activates the surviving pages of the Azure Origin Qi Refining Manual, left behind by his father. In an iron-and-steel metropolis starved of spiritual energy, he struggles to make ends meet while evading the Shadow Pavilion, which is hunting him for the manual. After meeting reclusive cultivators, he discovers that his mother’s illness is closely tied to the depletion of Jiangcheng’s underground spiritual veins, and that the manual is the key to unlocking them. A path of qi refinement that began as a quest to save his mother ultimately becomes a life-or-death struggle to protect his loved ones and the city’s spiritual energy…