Introduction to I Won’t Become an Immortal
If becoming an immortal means extinguishing human desire and kneeling before Heaven’s Will, then I refuse. I’ll overthrow Heaven’s Will itself.
Chen Cinan, a spoiled salt merchant’s son, has always loved nothing more than lying around, counting money, and listening to vulgar tunes.
Until the immortal sects and the imperial court joined forces to “reap” his family. A bolt of heavenly lightning turned his family’s century-old business and his parents’ lives into offerings to “Heaven’s Will.” Their only crime: mortal wealth was an obstacle to the immortals’ plans.
Standing amid the ruins, Chen Cinan wiped away the blood and smiled.
He burned the account books and raised a torch:
“From today on, rebellion is my profession.”
“First target: topple the throne that treats human lives as tax revenue.”
“Ultimate target: smash the Celestial Court that treats all living beings as firewood!”
And so the most irreverent rebel leader set out.
He used streetwise ingenuity to break military formations, managed logistics with abacuses and ledgers, and won people over with a torrent of twisted logic. He founded the Way of the “Heartfire”: the anger, attachment, and indignation of ordinary people would become the fiercest flames, enough to burn immortals and gods to ash.
From raiding government granaries and seizing county seats, to carving out a kingdom and marching on the capital.
He would prove one thing:
Are kings and nobles born to rule? Can the power of immortals and gods truly not be taken?
This is a rebellion by ordinary people. It is a revolt not only against the emperor, but against the gods and immortals, against the “rules” that have trampled billions underfoot and rotted for countless millennia.
A masterpiece in my mind,