Everyone in the cultivation world seeks immortality.
Qi Refining grants a hundred years, Foundation Establishment two hundred, Golden Core five hundred, and Nascent Soul a thousand. The higher one’s cultivation, the longer one lives. For three thousand years, no one has ever questioned this ironclad rule.
That is, until Lin Que, a menial disciple, awakened the legendary Fate-Reversing Immortal Root.
When others break through, they gain a hundred years of life. When he breaks through, his lifespan plummets. At Qi Refining, he can still live a hundred years; at Foundation Establishment, he has only fifty left; at Golden Core, twenty; and at Nascent Soul, just three. The higher his cultivation, the sooner he dies, but the more absurdly powerful he becomes. The shorter his lifespan, the stronger he gets: he sweeps through opponents at his own level and defeats those above him as easily as drinking water.
And so the cultivation world gains its most ridiculous figure.
Others go into seclusion to break through. Before withdrawing, he writes his will.
Others fight over opportunities to become immortals. He fights over spirit fruit just to live three days longer.
When others shout, “I’ll kill you today!” during a duel, he first asks, “Do you have any life-prolonging pills? If not, I’m not fighting. It’s not worth it.”
While the whole world borrows life from the Heavenly Dao in its pursuit of immortality, Lin Que becomes the one person who neither borrows, repays, nor acknowledges the debt.
If cultivating only shortens your life,
then tear up the Heavenly Dao’s ledger of lifespans.
