The Path of Mortal Dust

This is not a fantasy tale of soaring through the skies, burrowing underground, or battles between immortals and demons. It is a realistic story of struggle, awakening, and cultivation, set in the concrete jungle of the 21st century and centered on the lives of ordinary people at the bottom of society.

The protagonist is an ordinary person you could see anywhere around you: no connections, no education, no savings. He scrapes by in the cracks of the city, barely able to breathe beneath the weight of rent, food, and social obligations. He has endured the world’s cold stares and seen its indifference. He once thought life was nothing but the same daily grind, until a desperate, dead-end crisis led him by chance to encounter the Taoist culture forgotten by modern civilization and set foot on a little-known path of cultivation in the mortal world.