Immortal of the White Bone Dao

In this world of glorious immortal paths, where everyone strives to temper their primordial spirit and pray for eternal life, Jiang Shu is an outsider.

Longevity always ends, and divine powers eventually decay. What he seeks is immortality beyond life, death, and reincarnation, enduring alongside the Great Dao and surviving every calamity.

To that end, he embarks on a forbidden path never before seen in the ages. He cultivates no primordial spirit and takes in no spiritual energy. Instead, he offers his own five organs as sacrifice, seeking life through death and stealing the authority of death from within annihilation.

Metal of the lungs, wood of the liver, water of the kidneys, fire of the heart, earth of the spleen... Each sacrifice takes him to the brink of self-destruction, earning him a platinum divine skeleton reborn from death as his old body burns away.

While others fight tooth and nail over a single Foundation Establishment Pill, he sits in silent meditation in the ancient burial grounds of a million dead. With a wave of his hand, the corpses of fallen gods and demons from antiquity slowly open their eyes, blazing with golden Dao-fire.

His Dao lies not beyond the ninth heaven, but among heaps of white bones. His immortal ranks are not made up of fellow cultivators of flesh and blood, but form an eternal procession of spirit soldiers.

“The world says I command the dead, defying the natural order.”

“They don’t understand.”

Jiang Shu gazed at the silent, solemn army of divine skeletons behind him, their eyes burning with golden flames, and said softly:

“I do not command death... I am the end of death, and the beginning of eternal life.”