What Does It Mean to Have the Makings of an Immortal?

A genius protagonist from a top-tier power, the second-greatest cultivation prodigy of all time. His looks are utterly unremarkable. He starts with a divine weapon, and gets his cultivation techniques by mooching them off others.

Cultivation isn’t a dinner party, an essay, or embroidery. It can’t be done with such refinement and composure.

Cultivation is transcendence, a defiant path from one level of life to another. Along the way, you have to make use of every resource available.

Top-tier sects will tell you that aptitude, talent, and resources don’t matter, that where there’s a will, there’s a way, and that diligence makes up for a lack of talent. With enough lucky breaks, even a nobody can become a great power.

The sad thing is, you believe them completely. Those so-called lucky breaks are resources that the top-tier sects already control.

In aptitude, insight, combat ability, background, resources, and ruthlessness, I, Li Xiuren, stand at the pinnacle of Shenzhou in every regard.

I’m special, and I’m the best. So if anyone can become an immortal, it has to be me.

An invincible protagonist, a lighthearted tone (more or less), decisive and ruthless, and a cultivation fantasy with a realistic edge.