A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Starting with the Little Green Bottle

Spiritual qi revival, and cultivation has become part of modern society. Cultivation universities, pill conglomerates, monster-infested wilderness, and the hundred arts of cultivation together make up this new era, where the strong prey on the weak.

Han Dongyang has mediocre aptitude and has spent years cultivating without managing to draw qi into his body. His parents have gone missing, his family has fallen on hard times, and even Lin Muxue, the campus beauty and gifted young woman to whom he was betrothed as a child, has come to break off the engagement with the help of the wealthy young master Zhou Zihao. Just as he is suffering one humiliation after another, his memories of a past life awaken, and a mysterious Little Green Bottle recognizes him as its master after receiving his blood.

The bottle contains its own space. Its black soil accelerates the growth of spirit plants, while its spring water nourishes meridians and removes pill toxins. While others fight tooth and nail over a few pills, Han Dongyang can grow spirit herbs and spirit rice, quietly building up his cultivation resources.

Yet despite possessing a priceless treasure, he doesn’t make a showy rise to power. He spreads out his purchases, trades anonymously, conceals his cultivation, and disguises his progress. When wealthy families try to suppress him, he uses the rules to protect himself. When classmates provoke him, he lets them think he’s weak. Even when fame is within easy reach, he would rather give way than make himself a target.

He knows all too well that on the path to immortality, only those who survive have a future.

From campus martial arts tournaments to hunting monsters in the wilderness, from studying talisman-making to investigating the truth behind his parents’ disappearance, Han Dongyang will use the Little Green Bottle to steadily build his strength. When no one can threaten him anymore, the world will discover that the unremarkable student who always kept a low profile and bided his time has long since left everyone else behind.