Cultivating Immortality for Longevity: Starting by Improving Spirit Rice

This is the best of times. Since the Dao Court was established, it has unified the ten thousand sects, established laws and standards, revised cultivation arts, founded the Imperial Academy, and compiled Dao journals. The cultivation knowledge once hidden in sects' secret repositories is gradually being made available to the entire world. Top-tier cultivation arts no longer belong only to certain bloodlines, and secret cultivation techniques are no longer passed down only to direct descendants. Alchemy, artifact forging, formations, spirit cultivation, beast taming, puppetry, and all the many arts of cultivation are recorded in Dao journals. They can all be verified and debated. The Dao rejects no one, and truth can be proven. This is the worst of times. Once the gates of knowledge are opened, competition becomes fiercer than ever before. A once-in-ten-thousand genius who undergoes decades or centuries of arduous cultivation may ultimately become nothing more than a stepping stone on someone else's path. Heavenly spirit roots, unusual bloodlines, direct disciples of sects, Foundation Establishment clans, and noble families of paradises are as numerous as carp crossing a river, beyond counting. There are differences even between geniuses! This is an age in which knowledge reigns supreme. An outstanding achievement can allow a cultivator to achieve financial freedom overnight. A high-quality Dao treatise included in the [Dao Canon] can even draw the protection of Heaven's will and bring its author blessed fortune. When Zhao Chengan awoke, he had transmigrated into this cultivation world where scholarship reigned supreme, carrying the Qiankun Cauldron, which could appraise all things and combine superior traits. Starting by improving spirit rice, he analyzes talisman patterns, reconstructs spells, optimizes magical artifacts, and publishes Dao treatises. Beginning in a barren land, he embarks on a path of cultivation that proves longevity through knowledge. Nine-turn pills shake heaven and earth; formations raised across the eight directions suppress ghosts and gods. Artifacts forged from the mystic yellow break all techniques; talismans depicting yin and yang determine the universe. When he looks back again, he has already become the source of ten thousand arts, the Dao Ancestor of Immortality. All cultivators who seek the Dao see my name.