A Mortal Life Reduced to Ash, No Longer Dreaming of Immortality

He was once a lowly slave in the mortal world, separated from his younger sister in childhood. He never got to give her the pair of iron bracelets, and that became a lifelong regret. After surviving countless brushes with death, he embarked on the path of cultivation. His Dao foundation shattered several times and he lost all his cultivation, but sheer determination kept him going. After a long journey of slaughter and endurance, he finally reached the pinnacle of quasi-immortality. Only when he broke into a forbidden land did he learn that his sister had been imprisoned for a thousand years. She had carved his name everywhere before sacrificing herself and letting her soul perish. In a fury, he wiped out the entire clan of his enemies. The gates to the immortal realm opened, but he shattered his own immortal foundation and refused to ascend. He remained in the mortal world for countless millennia, waiting for a fragment of her soul to be reborn and return. The slave's life was bitter and hard, The iron bracelets remained ungiven, and tears fell freely. The mortal world burned away, leaving only ashes, In this life, I seek no immortality, only you.