Immortal Path in the Green Mountains

Chen Xuan, a young herb gatherer from Qingshan Town, has been frail and coughing up blood since childhood. An inexplicable heat burns in his chest, and he barely manages to get by in his sickly body. At sixteen, while gathering herbs on Wild Wolf Ridge, he accidentally stumbled into a hidden cave and found the belongings of a reclusive cultivator who had died in meditation: a copy of the Qingyun Sect's entry-level cultivation manual, the Everlasting Spring Art; a low-grade spiritual artifact, the Concealment Mirror, which could hide its owner's aura; and a black iron token of unknown origin.

The token had rested against his body for sixteen years, growing unbearably hot whenever it rained. Yet the manual's opening lines declared: "Even mortals can ascend to immortality. All depends on whether they persevere."

His origins were a mystery, a chronic illness plagued him, and his spiritual roots were unknown. Only when Chen Xuan left Qingshan Town did he understand that cultivation was no carefree path to eternal life, but a thorny road against the will of heaven, one that could change his fate. With nothing but the clothes on his back, this humble herb boy sets out to seek the Dao. See how he begins with nothing and carves out a legend that will shake the world of cultivation.