There Is No Second Best Essay on Cultivating Immortals

Li Ban: "Fairy, I want to become an immortal." Fairy: "Can you recite the teacher's instructions?" … The world's aura has revived, a new era has begun, and the old civilization has been destroyed, but it has set off a wave of "literary" cultivation of immortality. Various mysterious cultivation media have begun to appear in the world: [Tengwang Pavilion: Kendo medium appears] [Shu Dao: Formation medium appears] [Yuehua Pavilion: Tianyin Medium Appears] [Bianjing Bridge: The emergence of Xuanming catalog medium] [Hanshan Temple: The Miaofa Chess Sutra medium appears...] However, only literature can connect the media here, thereby awakening the "literary soul" and achieving transcendence. Li Ban, the only remaining person from the old era of the earth, faced the "cultural invasion" of the monks from the new era, and decided to realize the Renaissance in his homeland: [In the Pavilion of Prince Teng, he wrote the "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion": Comprehending the sword meaning of falling clouds and autumn water*1. [Outside the Western Shu Road, the book "The Road to Shu is Difficult": the formation diagram "Shizhan Goujian Pavilion"*1. [In the Yuehua Pavilion, playing "Guangling San"...] [On the Bianjing Bridge, the painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival"...] [Under the Hanshan Temple, he wrote "The Thirteen Chapters of the Book of Chess"...] … Li Ban: "How can the legend of five thousand years of civilization come to an end so easily? If I claim to be second, who can claim to be first?"