“Are you here to comprehend the workings of heaven and earth at Yunmeng Mountain, fellow cultivator?”
“I’m no fellow cultivator. I’m just an ordinary mortal here to look at the mountain.”
“A mortal? Can mortals climb to the summit of Yunmeng Mountain? Which immortal ship did you take to reach this sacred mountain?”
“I didn’t come by immortal ship. What, can’t a mortal make it here on his own to see what only immortals can see?”
Born amid wondrous omens and given a gift by an immortal, Yin Xuan once glimpsed another world from close by, but in the end, he was never destined to enter it. I pursued it and refused to accept my fate, but after weathering the vicissitudes of life and seeing an immortal again, I finally let go of my obsession. Since the path to immortality is not meant for me, I may as well wander the human world, just as immortals do, and take in all the countless sights this world has to offer. (Immortality is a state of transcendence, yet cultivation novels train their characters within a rigid framework of realms. Immortals should not be constrained by fixed rules, so I wrote this unconventional cultivation novel. The story may be quite sentimental, so please don’t flame it if that’s not to your taste.)
