Li Gongnan: Why Cultivate Immortality? Just Staying Alive Is Cultivation

Name: Li Gongnan: Why Cultivate Immortality? Just Staying Alive Is Cultivation
Author: Guest at the Deer’s Call

厉公南：修什么仙？活着就是修行

by Guest at the Deer’s Call (鹿鸣客)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 103k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Cultivation
Updated: 10mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Li Gongnan was born to an ordinary family in the Lower Realm. Through diligent cultivation, he finally secured a post at the Demon-Subduing Camp on Temple King Peak in the Upper Realm and settled into the life of a proper immortal, envied by all. But times changed, and the world with them. As more and more mortals in the Lower Realm achieved immortality, the Upper Realm had too few positions to offer. Countless rogue immortals were left with nothing to do and no offerings to sustain them, inevitably giving rise to trouble. At the same time, technological advances in the Lower Realm brought all kinds of novelties to the immortals of the Upper Realm. And because cultivation was so grueling and offered so little reward, fewer mortals were willing to pursue it, leaving the Upper Realm facing a future without new immortals. Even Li Gongnan, once an embodiment of justice who vanquished demons and monsters, could not avoid being swept into this era, as immortals sank deeper into depravity and mortals grew ever more reckless and deranged. He witnessed one bizarre evil spirit after another traveling from the Upper Realm to the Lower Realm.

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