The first rule of cultivating immortality: check your credit report first.
Su Shi jumps off a cliff and survives, only to discover that beneath the Taihang Mountains lies the root of the primeval world.
Other people have sects. We’ve got online loans.
Five stones, the remnants of Nuwa’s sky-mending, live in his five organs. As he nurtures them, the Dragon-Suppressing Pagoda cracks, a black dragon escapes, and the door to Archive Room 949 swings open.
Su Shi pushes up his glasses and glances at the debt-collection text.
No matter who shows up, he won’t be able to ascend until the loan is paid off.
There are many intersections between reality and fantasy, and the sense of substitution is strong