Being a Ghost in the Cultivation World

Blurb One:

Chu Jiang accidentally died, but the good news was that he got a second chance at life in the cultivation world.

The only problem was that he was reincarnated as a divination tortoise... or rather, its shell.

But that was all right. A very nice senior told him that as long as he worked hard at cultivating, he could eventually become a human-shaped ghost.

Luckily, he had a bit of talent, and he was just about ready to become a free-roaming ghost.

It was just that heavenly lightning was a little too hot.

Blurb Two:

As an ordinary person who believed in science, Chu Jiang was reborn in a world where people could cultivate immortality after a great fire.

In this not-so-scientific world, he was a lonely spirit possessing a spirit beast, with no freedom of his own.

After learning that the soul could also cultivate, Chu Jiang clung to the hope that one day he would cultivate a human body and travel the world. He treasured and made use of every opportunity to learn, sneaking along inside the spirit beast from one secret realm into Tianyan Sect, the largest sect in the world, in hopes of finding a cultivation method suited to him.

After repeatedly trying fragments of texts that could nourish his consciousness and strengthen his soul, and taking a beating from heavenly lightning, he finally had to admit that to achieve his goal, he would still have to take a path considered heretical by the cultivation world: soul cultivation.

I have to let everyone know, very regretfully, that I really can't keep this story going. Maybe I'm too greedy and wanted to write too much without having the skill to match. Updates will slow down even more from now on. Perhaps I can write better if I stop putting so much pressure on myself.

Theme: There is always a way forward.