The Mortal’s Puppet Cultivation Chronicle

Without a golden finger or a little green bottle, does that mean an ordinary person can't cultivate immortality?

(Classic ordinary-person cultivation, with some traditional wuxia elements; no transmigration, no System...)

The protagonist, Zhuge Shen, is the son of a minor cultivation clan in the cultivation world north of the desert. After his family is wiped out in a horrific tragedy, can he use his family's inherited art of mechanical puppetry to win justice for his clan and himself in this merciless world of cultivation...?