A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: From the Start, I Signed Up for a Brothers-in-Arms Loan

[Mortal Cultivation + Cautious Immortal Cultivation + Decisive and Ruthless + Old Fox + Lots of jokes early on]

[Cultivation levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deification...]

"Junior Brother Yang, you're my dearest friend, my sworn brother. How could I ever cheat you?"

"Don't worry, Junior Brother Yang. We're all people of Qi. Like they say, people of Qi don't cheat other people of Qi."

Yang Chen believed him and signed the "Sworn Brothers Loan."

A month later, the monthly interest rate went from ten percent to thirty percent.

He had to pay off his debt while also figuring out how to survive the outer sect's deadline two and a half years away: he needed to reach the fourth level of Qi Refining.

He had only four spiritual roots and was at the second level of Qi Refining, so he could only force his way through the bottleneck. That night, he nearly suffered cultivation deviation.

At death's door, his memories from his previous life returned.

He woke up and checked: first, no wise old man in a ring; second, no immortal artifact by his side; third, no System interface.

Yang Chen complained, "Then what exactly is my 'astonishing talent'?"

The mysterious jade slip carried the Four Great Heavenly Eye Techniques: Don't rush, bro, I'm here!

"( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"

"Looks like this is my 'astonishing talent.'"

From then on, he stopped gambling on fortuitous encounters and focused exclusively on the Dao of Alchemy.

Many years later, a fearsome Yang the Demon Lord shook the cultivation world.