My Tribulation Failed, but My Incarnation Became the Master of Ten Thousand Dao

Looking back on his life, Jiang Liao could only feel that fate had dealt him a cruel hand. He lacked talent and had only ordinary insight. No matter how diligently he cultivated, even after becoming the sect's grand ancestor and ruling over a region, he still couldn't escape the fate of a finite lifespan. Only when his time was nearly up, as he lay near death after failing to overcome his tribulation, did he awaken the divine ability Ten Thousand Paths: cultivate an external avatar and change his mediocre fate. Where talent falls short, an avatar can make up the difference. What does the mediocrity of the original body have to do with its avatars? From a timid, powerless half-blood wolf cub to an awe-inspiring emperor of the demon race; from a frail, blind young master to a soul-severing alchemist whose very bones and blood bloom with flowers; from a mass-produced puppet born to a life of hard labor to a jade-and-stone immortal honored for his boundless merit; from souls resentful at the edge of the abyss, to a world-filling green lotus, to the Sword of Pure White... Everything under heaven has its own path to immortality. External selves, divine selves: become ten thousand forms, walk ten thousand paths, merge them into one, and temper gold and forge fire until at last the Great Dao is achieved. Only when a great calamity descended did the world discover that the legendary Ancestor Dangyun, who had secluded himself to cross his tribulation and whose life or death was unknown, had already become an immortal.