Cultivating Immortality, Starting as a Temple Priest

Three hundred years ago, the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth ran dry. The sects fell, the immortal path was severed, and orthodox cultivators who could fly through the skies and burrow through the earth vanished without a trace.

All that remained in the world were ruined temples scattered across the wilderness, folk taboos passed down through generations, mountain spirits, and wicked ghosts, along with a little-known path of cultivation that belonged to no immortal sect and drew on no heavenly mandate. It cultivated only the incense of the mortal world and accumulated worldly merit: the Temple Keeper’s Way.

Everyone knew that becoming an immortal was harder than reaching the heavens. But no one knew that within a dilapidated ancient temple lay the only chance at immortality in this age of spiritual decline.

Temples were nodes in the earth’s ley lines, incense was the source of cultivation, and the human heart was the law of Heaven. Temple keepers did not worship celestial beings or seize the secrets of Heaven. They protected their land, saved its people, and subdued its evil spirits, proving the immortal path through the way of humanity.

Monsters and ghosts ran rampant throughout the world. They all feared orthodox immortals, yet preyed on ignorant mortals and ruined temples.

Without incense to sustain them, desolate mountain temples could not hold back evil spirits, their divine statues gathering dust. Disasters struck villages, while strange tales and eerie happenings appeared one after another.

And true temple keepers were the last line of defense for humanity in this chaotic age of spiritual decline.