Against the Ordinary

On the night when the Shen family was exterminated, the fifteen-year-old bastard Shen Yan hid in the chimney of the foundry, listening to his mother being dragged away, his father being beheaded, and the screams of his clan members disappearing one after another. He survived. There is no spiritual root qualification, no system grandfather, and no magic weapon that can defy the heavens. All he had was a mutilated notebook from a dead cultivator, and a black remnant whose origin was revealed many years later. Starting from the first level of Qi Refining, he struggled to regain his life inch by inch amidst pursuit, hunger, old injuries, and lack of spiritual stones. It took five years to kill the first enemy. It took twelve years to kill the second one. When he killed the last one, he found that his temples were already white. This is a novel about mortals cultivating immortals without golden fingers. The protagonist does not rely on luck, but on patience, calculation and bearing the cost. From the night when Qingxi City was destroyed, to the moment when he ascended to the Immortal Sect. The life of an ordinary person has been taken away by him for a long, long time.