Lu Zhao became the lowest-ranking servant in the Qinghe Sword Sect. With a muddled spiritual root and a bleak future, he seemed destined for nothing.
After being caught in a disaster that had nothing to do with him, his meridians were shattered, and he was tossed into a shabby room to await death.
Luckily, from the start, he could choose one of three Hextech augments.
[Steel Your Heart]: Every attack permanently increases your vitality. Every hundred attacks, it triples.
[Infernal Conduit]: Burn foes with hellfire and reduce spell cooldowns.
[Magic Missile]: A homing attack that deals true damage and ignores defenses.
From then on, the path of immortality had a new kind of outlier.
While people mocked him for knowing nothing of the Dao and practicing no divine arts, saying all he did was take hits like a brute, he was quietly building his vitality to the scale of rivers and tempering his body into an indestructible foundation.
Later, an ancient demon tore the sky apart. All magic faded, and the saints fell.
The figure once scorned slowly rose and stood between the demon and the world.
The ancient demon unleashed an attack that could destroy the world, yet it couldn’t make him take even half a step back.
Lu Zhao merely wiped the nonexistent blood from the corner of his mouth, looked at the now-blurred numbers on his status panel, and murmured to himself:
“So the fastest way to immortality...”
“...is to make sure nobody can kill me.”
Also known as: “If It Can’t Kill You, Keep Taking Hits,” “Cultivation, but I Maxed Out Defense,” “My Health Bar Is Longer Than Your Lifespan,” and “From Stacking Armor to Attaining Sainthood Through the Flesh”...
It's just average, old-fashioned, nothing new.