The Demonic Lotus Plays It Safe: I Forge Eternal Life With Heavenly Fire

The lotus bears nine petals, and each one brings death.

A black, nine-petaled demonic lotus appeared from nowhere in the sea of consciousness of the youth, A An.

At first, he thought it was an immense stroke of fortune. But when the petals were nearly mature, he learned it was a deadly calamity. Once the flower bloomed, his body and soul would be destroyed.

To survive, he had to seize the world's most yang heavenly flames and refine the lotus root.

But every one of those flames was held by a major faction, and each came with bloodshed and deadly traps.

With no backing and no formidable cultivation, he could only hide his strength, tread carefully, and gamble on a path to immortality from the narrow gaps between powerful forces.