The Mortal World's Path to Enlightenment

Lin Qingwu swept the floors at Qingyun Sect for five years.

Everyone who entered with her had reached Foundation Establishment, while she was still in the Qi Drawing stage. Her spiritual root was so clogged it was like a blocked sewer. The elders thought she was wasting spiritual energy, so they assigned her to dust the library.

One day, while wiping a shelf, a battered scroll fell on her head.

The Way of Enlightenment in the Mortal World.

No meditation, no refining her spiritual root. The instructions said just one thing: The bustle of mortal life is the best spiritual energy.

She packed up and went down the mountain.

In her first life, she was an orphan in a time of war, fighting people for a bite to eat. That's when she learned what it meant to survive on her own.

In her second life, she was the legitimate daughter of a medicine merchant. She barely had time to enjoy her good fortune before she was falsely accused and imprisoned. Only after crawling out of the imperial dungeon did she see that good and evil weren't simply black and white.

Later, she served in court, witnessed famine, and saw both the stench of wine and meat behind vermilion gates and the frozen corpses lying by the road.

Other people sever their worldly ties, claiming the seven emotions and six desires are a burden. She refuses, and puts them all into her Dao Heart.

There are no System notifications chiming away with missions, and no male lead falling from the sky to romance her. Everyone she meets along the way is just passing through. The experiences she lives are what cultivate her.

It's just that every time she enters a new mortal life, some dogged nuisance in a gray robe sticks to her, hot on her trail by following the aura of her cultivation technique.

She has no idea what that guy wants.

But as someone who spent five years sweeping floors, she has patience to spare. The mortal world stretches out before her, and she'll take her time. Step by step, she'll find her own path.

Theme: The Great Dao isn't found by cutting yourself off from the world, but by living through it