A Bad Seed on the Immortal Path [Fake Incest]

Also known as: The Fake Young Master Only Wants to Cultivate Immortality

Yu Jinqing was born with the face of a femme fatale.

His eyes seemed veiled in mist, and his lips were naturally red. In this merciless cultivation world, he had the most deceptive face of all.

His spiritual roots were impure, a good-for-nothing with four spiritual roots. In any family, he would be destined to be discarded.

Yet he survived, and lived well, all thanks to his face and his clever, calculating heart. He understood people inside and out.

As a child in the Li family, he was never valued. Worse, he was the posthumous child of Father Li's beloved first love, not truly the Li family's second young master.

His older brother, Li Jinlin, was a dual-spiritual-root prodigy, dazzlingly brilliant. Yu Jinqing had only a face that closely resembled his late father's, which drew increasingly undisguised covetous attention from Father Li.

The youth smiled softly at his reflection, then secretly planted a trap in the talisman patterns of the mountain-protecting formation.

That night, the Li family fell. Hundreds of its members perished in the beast tide.

He left calmly with his rich supplies, while behind him Li Jinlin cried out hoarsely, "Little brother! Take care of yourself."

Yu Jinqing didn't look back. He merely brushed the dust from his sleeve.

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After entering the cultivation world, he made the most of his looks.

When he sought a master, senior brothers stepped in to shield him from trouble. When he fought for treasures, female cultivators drew powerful enemies away for him. In secret realms, a few words were enough to provoke two factions into fighting each other while he reaped the rewards.

Everyone said Yu Jinqing was delicate and easy to bully, a doddering vine dependent on others. They didn't know that the people he had supposedly "depended on" all became stepping stones on his path to ascension.

While Li Jinlin rose rapidly through the ranks of the White Cloud Sect, Yu Jinqing gathered resources atop countless bones and forcibly tempered his good-for-nothing spiritual roots into a deadly weapon with pills and spiritual treasures.

When they met again at the Immortal Dao Tournament, Li Jinlin was still the same noble and upright man. He took Yu Jinqing's hand and said, "Jinqing, it's been so long."

Yu Jinqing smiled and pulled his hand away. His fingers formed a spell, and heavenly lightning struck.

In this world, a good-for-nothing who wants to rise must either kneel and beg or smile as he kills.

He chose the latter.

As for his former older brother, Li Jinlin, he was a good man. But the purer he was, the more Yu Jinqing wanted to drag him down with him.

Yu Jinqing had never planned to be anyone's little brother.

What he wanted was for all under heaven to kneel and watch him reach the summit.

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Reader's guide:

1. The protagonist initially has the surname Li. He changes it after leaving the Li family.

Theme: No matter how dangerous your circumstances are, never give up on yourself.