Everyone says cultivating immortality is wonderful: you can fly through the skies, burrow through the earth, and live for ages.
Wang Lin, however, thinks it sounds grand, but in practice it’s exhausting, cutthroat, and liable to get you killed.
All he wanted was to play a small-time fortune-teller in Linshan City, scam a little spending money, buy a roast chicken, and scrape by with the old swindler he’d picked up as a grandfather.
But the heavens reward diligence, and a sudden “immortal calamity” shattered his peaceful little dream.
He was lucky enough to survive, and somehow ended up with an inheritance that looked anything but respectable: half of the Netherworld Record.
The cultivation method is bizarre, the approach is unorthodox, and the requirements are rather demanding: he has to visualize the Nine Netherworlds, refine sinister yin energy, and occasionally deal with lonely ghosts and restless spirits…
Well, at least it’s a chance at immortality.
And so, an ordinary boy with no foundation, carrying half a heretical cultivation manual and a bellyful of hard-earned tricks for cheating and surviving, is forced onto the narrow bridge to immortality, where billions of living beings compete for passage.
Facing prestigious sects that monopolize resources, demonic overlords who kill without blinking, righteous immortal masters who hide daggers behind their smiles, and ancient secret realms that devour people whole…
Wang Lin rubs his hands together and flashes two harmless little tiger teeth.
“Fellow Daoist, please wait! Your brow is dark. I foresee a bloody disaster in your near future…”
“This is a family heirloom, a Talisman for Breaking Evil. For just 998, it’s a bargain you can’t lose…”
“What? You say I’m practicing demonic arts? Hey! Don’t go around saying things like that. This is… an innovative Daoist art! Yes, an innovation!”
This is the hilarious (?) story of a little nobody in a cultivation world that devours the weak, doing his best to stay alive while ruthlessly playing dirty, and occasionally scamming people so badly they’re left reeling.
