Every Time I Die, I Get One Step Closer to Immortality

A lighthearted, funny, and heartwarming read. Note: This is an urban slice-of-life novel, with little in the way of showing off and face-slapping or fighting monsters and leveling up. It's warm and harmonious all the way through.

Also known as The Path to Longevity: Electricity and Me, My Years of Researching Longevity, After Being Reborn, I Discovered the Secret to Longevity, Seeking Longevity Through Heretical Cultivation, and A Modern Diary of Longevity

Good news: I transmigrated, and the System showed up!

Bad news: The System bound itself to the wrong person!

Neither good nor bad news: The System gave me a breakup settlement!

[Death Rewind: When you die, time automatically rewinds, and you are reborn at the moment you first became conscious.]

Xu Shili says:

“Last life, I never figured out how to live. Now I've got another chance, and I want to prove myself. Not to show how much better I am than everyone else. It's mainly because my last life was too short. This time, I'm going to live a little longer...”

“Next, let me show you the real deal: bioelectricity.”

“Qigong doesn't actually exist. So many people have repeated the same falsehood that it eventually became known as qigong.”

“Qi is just something people use to mislead others. There's no such thing as absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth or drawing in the essence of the sun and moon. People made all that up. The human body doesn't have any such thing as a dantian or a sea of qi.”

“Real qigong isn't called qigong. It's bioelectricity.”

“Qigong, or bioelectricity training, as it would be more accurately called! If there were a method to strengthen the body's bioelectricity, perhaps it could improve the very essence of human life...”