Other people work hard at cultivation, while I, your Daoist master, can read the signs and calculate the future, taking a shortcut to success!
Stay away from bad people, embrace good people, and stick close to benefactors. The road to immortality will be smooth all the way.
Hardship alone can't make you an immortal, and you don't have to suffer to become one.
The greatest hardship Hu Zhou has ever endured was the difficult journey home.
But Hu Zhou, who doesn't want to suffer, has seen all the suffering in the human world...
The Thousand Mechanisms Dao Derivation Art lets him tell good people from bad, avoid misfortune and seek good fortune, and even calculate where opportunities lie.
Read faces before interacting with people, cast a divination when you can't decide what to do, and calculate the unknown road ahead. In the end, fortune-telling leads him down a path to immortality.
But sometimes, this fortune-telling isn't quite so straightforward.
You calculate that something is in the east, and sure enough, you get it, but it turns out to have come from the west?
You calculate that something is in the west and can get it, but only after traveling south and north before finally finding it in the west!
Hu Zhou never wanted to work hard or suffer. He just wanted to go home, hold his wife, have children, and live a simple, happy life.
But after arriving in a world of immortal cultivation, he comes of age and his marriage is arranged, only for an old Daoist troublemaker to show up halfway through and drag him away by force!
He has barely finished the ceremony to become a disciple before he's faced with splitting up the family and running away...
Hu Zhou doesn't want to endure the hardships of cultivation. He just wants to go home, hold his wife, have children, and lie flat.
But the road home goes on and on... What kind of person is this old Daoist? Why did he drag Hu Zhou so far away? When will he finally calculate where home is?
And the things his cheap master gave him before running off amounted to the Thousand Mechanisms Dao Derivation Art and a Daoist robe, plus a book titled A Taoist's Self-Cultivation...
He didn't give him a single cent or one spirit stone!
[For fans of immortal cultivation stories. There is no set school or style, only writing that follows the heart. I hope my fellow Daoists will enjoy it.]
Why did you start another book?