Immortal Path Against Fate: From Country Ruffian to Cultivation Overlord

The Rise of an Immortal: From Country Bumpkin to Cultivation Overlord follows Li Sicheng, a young man from the countryside, as he rises from rock bottom. After stumbling into a secret cultivation realm and awakening the bloodline of an ancient Dragon Emperor, he begins living a remarkable double life. By day, he uses modern business strategies to upend the traditional cultivation world. He founds the Sicheng Group and brings innovations like “spirit-stone futures” and “ascension insurance” into the economy of immortals and mortals alike. Using capital to break the great clans’ monopoly, he transforms from a country bumpkin into a domineering CEO who rules the business world. By night, he secretly practices the Dragon Soul arts and uses street smarts to defuse cultivation crises, bringing modern ideas like livestream tips and paid online courses to the battlefields of immortals and demons, and rewriting the rules of combat with absurd ingenuity.

At the heart of the story is Li Sicheng’s bond with Ling Xuewei, an aloof immortal maiden. They go from enemies to confidants, eventually bridging the divide between immortals and mortals through modern gestures like a livestreamed proposal and buying out a sect. Turning traditional cultivation fiction on its head, the story combines cultivation with business warfare to create an unconventional tycoon who moves between the streets and the path to immortality. With capital as his sword and humor as his shield, he stirs up a storm of change in both worlds. He uses spiritual rain to rebuild his hometown and thunderous force to settle old scores, ultimately choosing to “stay in the human world, where life is more interesting than ascending to immortality.” His decision reveals a distinctive understanding of power and emotion. Told with absurdist flair, the novel captures an era of sweeping change and paints an epic tale of how an ordinary man rewrites the rules of the cultivation world by unconventional means.