In Search of Immortality

The Great Way is simplicity itself, but immortality is hard to attain. Cultivation is, by its very nature, the ultimate race against time. Every retreat for grueling cultivation burns through one's already limited lifespan; every breakthrough into a new realm is a perilous leap wrested from the heavens. Even if one finds a fleeting opportunity and clings to life a little longer, a century later, old friends are all dust, and mountains and rivers have lost their former face. On this path to immortality, growing ever harder and lonelier, Yang Shu must navigate the narrow gaps in his sect's rigid order and dance a deadly dance with the strange treasure inside his body. More than that, he must face the cruel question of what “immortality” means: “If no one walks beside you on the path to immortality, if all that remains at eternity's end is loneliness, what use is such a Great Way?”