Cinderella’s Path to Immortality

Lin Yue was born with leaky meridians. One year of cultivation brought her less progress than other people made in a single night.

To get her younger sister a Soul-Settling Pill, she took the lowest job at the Qinglu Furnace Sect: repairing broken furnaces that could explode and kill someone at any moment. Then one day, she found a damaged jade manual in the furnace ash.

The illustrated manual could not conjure treasures from thin air, but it could devour discarded pills and broken artifacts, then repair and strengthen treasures of the same kind.

Nine discarded pills could be restored into one good pill; a hundred broken swords could be reforged into a supreme spirit sword; and an ancient scripture missing three chapters could be completed into a legacy pointing straight to the Great Dao, provided she found enough scattered fragments. As for the radiant Ascension Pact, the manual displayed only one line: This item is stealing the essence of the Cangwu Realm.

Lin Yue repaired pills, swords, and souls, and even a world on the brink of death.

Later, the gods of the myriad heavens asked her, “Everything has its flaws. Can you repair it all?”

Lin Yue opened the Heaven-Mending Manual. Behind her stood billions of cultivators who had followed her all the way from the mortal realm.

“No.”

“If I can’t repair it all, I’ll start by killing the people who caused the damage.”