Cultivation for Cash: A Billionaire’s Journey to Immortality

In 2025, global tycoon Lin Yichen is unveiling his company's latest piece of cutting-edge technology, an “immersive holographic gaming pod,” when he is unexpectedly swept into the world of Xianxia, the game he invested in, Immortal Path. From the start, he is the good-for-nothing rogue cultivator Lin Yi, framed and thrown off a cliff, penniless, with his spiritual root destroyed and a crime he never committed hanging over his head.

Lin Yichen soon discovers something astonishing: wealth in the game can be exchanged for real-world assets, and vice versa! While everyone else is risking their lives for a single spirit stone, Lin Yichen uses his trillion-dollar fortune in the real world to buy an entire spirit-stone mine in the game.

While everyone else struggles to cultivate low-level techniques, he hires the elders of an entire sect as his private tutors. While everyone else goes bankrupt trying to afford a single spirit artifact, he orders a supreme immortal sword custom-made by the greatest swordsmith in the immortal realm.

But Lin Yichen soon discovers that this game world is far more complicated than he imagined. Its NPCs have real feelings, the conflicts between its sects conceal hidden schemes, and the girl who gave him a hot sweet potato when he was at his lowest turns out to be hiding a world-shaking secret...