Everyone Cultivates Immortality: I Draw One Entry Every Day

In this era of universal cultivation, everyone who turns eighteen can send their spiritual body into the Virtual God Realm to cultivate. Chen Fan has earned perfect scores in the city's cultivation theory exams for three years running. Everyone expects him to draw a Heavenly Spiritual Root and become half of a legendary immortal couple with the school beauty, Liu Ruxue.

That is, until the Spirit-Testing Stele glows with a muddied blend of five colors: a Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Root, the lowest grade, universally regarded as useless.

The school beauty breaks off their engagement on the spot. The Chen family elders turn and walk out, not even offering a word of courtesy. Just as everyone thinks the top student of this year's class is about to leave in disgrace, a mechanical voice sounds in Chen Fan's mind:

[Keyword Sign-In System activated. You may draw one keyword each day.]

His first draw is the talent keyword [Martial Arts: True Understanding]. He can master any martial arts technique or combat skill just by looking at it once. Every time he breaks through a minor cultivation stage, he unlocks an auxiliary keyword slot. Each major cultivation realm has only one talent slot.

Others rely on their spiritual roots. Chen Fan relies on keywords to defy the heavens.

His family cuts off his funding? His younger brother mocks him? His cousins trample all over him? He can't be bothered to argue. He turns around and heads straight for the borderlands of the Virtual God Realm, quietly building up his strength. The brilliant mind of a theory champion, combined with the accumulation of a new keyword every day, means the poor conversion rate of his useless spiritual root is no obstacle at all.

At his first mock exam, Chen Fan, despite his useless spiritual root, ranks tenth.

The scions of the great families rush to make him offers, but he turns them all down. "The college entrance exam is what matters."