Proving Immortality with Half a Poem

An ironclad rule of the cultivation world: a poem must be written in full to draw in spiritual energy. Half a poem is worthless!

But Gao Zhan is an exception! At the Qingxuan Sect's test, half a poem toppled the testing platform. In danger at Yunmeng Marsh, half of The Lady of the Xiang River broke the water-domain killing formation. In a borderland duel, two lines of "The Legend of Qin: The moon shines as it did in Qin, the passes stand as they did in Han" summoned Wang Changling's literary spirit, crushing a late-stage Golden Core battle spirit fusion. To break through the Dao-Enlightenment realm's impasse, he kept only "The Dao gives birth to one; one gives birth to two," stirring the world's origin and breaking through to Nascent Soul!

The entire Chapter of Poets accused him of destroying the foundations of the poetic Dao, sending Nascent Soul elders and even the deputy sect master to hunt him down in turn. But they had no idea Gao Zhan had stumbled upon a shocking secret: ancient poet immortals never used complete poems. By leaving room for the Dao to fill in the artistic conception, they drew in ten times as much spiritual energy as a complete poem! The rule that "poems must be written in full" was nothing but a thousand-year lie to monopolize resources!

Half of Elegy for the State shattered a Nascent Soul. Half of Returning Home with Joy broke the cycle of reincarnation. Half of the Dao De Jing subdued the poetry demon!

With half-poems as his blade, Gao Zhan shattered every convention of the cultivation world and attained the Dao through half-poems, becoming the first "Half-Poem Immortal" of all time, restoring the true Dao of the unspoken to the Three Realms!