I Want Eternal Life, But the Immortal Realm Wants Me to Ascend

[Cultivation + Cunning] At ten years old, Chen Fan was the lowliest servant in the Xiao residence of Jiangcheng. His mother had died young, and his father was a compulsive gambler. Every day, he had to get up before dawn to boil water and chop wood, working like an ox and a horse for the Xiao family. But he had no idea that an opportunity destined to rewrite his fate was quietly approaching On his way home on a rainy night, he took a shortcut and fell into the woods. Buried beneath a tree root was an exquisite jade box. Inside lay a “piece of candy.” He wiped his muddy hands and swallowed it in one gulp, smacking his lips. “Why doesn’t it taste like anything?” It wasn’t candy. It was the treasured Breaking Barrier Pill of the Cloud Crossing Hall! A heaven-defying elixir coveted by Nascent Soul Ancestors, it could grant a mortal a spiritual root out of thin air! Overnight, Chen Fan’s body was cleansed and remade, its impurities expelled, and his spiritual root took shape. He still thought he had merely eaten something that upset his stomach. He had no idea that he was now the luckiest mortal in the world. From the lowest menial servant in the Xiao residence to a rising cultivator who embarked on the path of cultivation. He swallowed an immortal pill in a mortal’s body, and from that moment on, the world turned upside down and his fate was transformed.