The Mortal World Is a Dream, the Immortal Path a Distant Mist

Lin Chen is an ordinary mortal, as insignificant as dust, struggling to survive in the frontier town of Qingshi. News of the Zixiao Sect's recruitment test shines a faint light into his bleak life. The mysterious stone bead he accidentally activates hides the secrets of cultivation. After overcoming countless trials, he enters the immortal sect. With his tenacious spirit and the help of his ancestral stone bead, Lin Chen navigates the brutal world of cultivation one careful step at a time. From a boy in the mines to a prodigy of the immortal sect, he defies fate in a mortal body and writes his own passionate legend along the vast road of cultivation.