[Xianxia] [No System] [Slow-Paced] During the Jiajing era, an emperor consumed by the desire for immortality secretly orders the Imperial Guards to search the south for the path to becoming an immortal. Li Zhengfu, a company commander, is sent to Lingnan to investigate, following leads through street-corner tales and miasma-filled mountains. After enduring countless hardships to find silk manuscripts that may contain a cultivation method, he discovers that fame and fortune are not what await him. Instead, the Eastern Depot, the martial world, and mysterious cultivators join forces to hunt him down. With nearly all his brothers in arms dead or wounded, he glimpses the way to cultivation in a desperate moment, but must trade the technique for his freedom. Bearing the bodies of his comrades and an unfinished journey to immortality, he embarks on an even more perilous, blood-soaked road home.
