Honghuang: I Became the Most Laid-Back of the Twelve Golden Immortals

Huang Long, a burned-out office worker who died from overwork, opens his eyes to find that he has become the most miserable of the Twelve Golden Immortals of Chan Sect: True Person Huang Long. He has no combat ability, no disciples, no accomplishments, and no magic treasures, making him a bona fide “Four-Nothing Golden Immortal.” At this point, Yuanshi has only just become a sage, the war between the Wu and the Yao is still raging, and the Investiture of the Gods calamity is far off. It has been only two thousand years since Huang Long became his disciple, and the road ahead is still unknown. Unlike his original self, who was timid and insecure, Huang Long knows how to survive in the primordial world: living forever is already an immense blessing, and with a secure position, why worry about slacking off? He lets go of his obsession with magic treasures and uses the Ancestral Dragon Canon as his foundation and the Jade Purity Immortal Method as his framework, combining the Great Dao of both lineages to create the Jade Purity Divine Dragon Path, a cultivation method uniquely his own. Through countless eons of painstaking cultivation, he also perfects his mastery of thunder arts and condenses an eye of heavenly tribulation that defies the heavens. After unexpectedly obtaining the Great Dao Golden Book, transformed from a Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation, and receiving the Soul-Calming Bell from Yuanshi, Huang Long studies the Jade Void supernatural art, the Auspicious Cloud Golden Lamp. Step by step, he makes up for his shortcomings, growing from the lowest-ranking Golden Immortal, looked down on by everyone, into a top-tier fighter capable of standing toe-to-toe with Xuandu and overpowering experts from the Jie Sect. At the grand debate among the Three Sects, he faces Xuandu's One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and his supreme-grade spiritual treasure, turning the tide to claim the Wood Spirit Pearl. As the primordial world is swept by upheaval, Huang Long stays true to his Dao heart. He neither curries favor nor blindly follows others, relying on the Dragon Clan's deep foundations and the Great Dao of the Mystic Sect to hold his ground amid the Wu-Yao and Investiture of the Gods calamities. He breaks free of his original fate and carves out a path to enlightenment that belongs to True Person Huang Long alone.