Cultivating Immortality from a Spring Breeze

Mu Chunfeng transmigrates into the Great Tang, becoming a wisp of spring wind kept in captivity to bathe and dress female cultivators. With his lifespan nearly exhausted, he is on the verge of death and dissolution.

Fortunately, he receives the fate [Good Deeds Extend Life, Reborn with Spring]: accumulating hidden virtue prolongs his life. If he dies and dissolves, he will not enter the cycle of reincarnation, but can return to life the following Start of Spring.

After enduring the heat of summer and the grim chill of autumn, he need only survive winter’s bitter cold until the next Start of Spring. If he passes through the tempering of the spring thunder, he will take human form.

He fails the tribulation and dies.

The following Start of Spring, he returns to life, attempts the tribulation again, and dies once more.

On the third Start of Spring, he finally takes human form.

He learns martial arts and magic, battles ghosts and slays demons. He crosses swords with Li Bai by the stream, discusses the Dao with a white ape beneath a tree, sips tea with a fairy on the clouds, and swims with a dragon in the water...

To extend the life of the woman he loves, he ventures into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, dies and returns seven times, and finally obtains a life-extending treasure.

To avenge his dead dear friend, he perseveres for sixty years, dies and returns nine times, and at last destroys the Demon Sect’s Holy Order.

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In this life, all I, Mu Chunfeng, seek besides eternal life is four words: peace of mind.

Many years later.

Before entering closed-door meditation, Li Bai says, “When in doubt, ask Chunfeng.”

His bewildered disciple’s grandchild asks, “Grandmaster, who is Chunfeng?”

Li Bai replies, “A carefree soul in the mortal world, an immortal among the clouds: Mu Chunfeng.”