This Technique Is Obsolete. Why Are You Still Practicing It?

Immortal cultivation has been developing for thirty thousand years, and cultivation techniques now come with expiration dates. Too slow to cultivate? Discarded. Too costly? Discarded. Caused someone’s death during cultivation? Straight into the Scripture-Burning Furnace. Gu Changqing is a handyman at the Scripture-Burning Institute of the Taixuan Immortal Academy. His daily job is to burn cultivation techniques that the times have left behind. Then one day, he discovers that he can see the cultivation records of everyone who has ever practiced each technique. 【Nine Heavens Thunder-Calling Art】 【Number of practitioners: 127.】 【Number of deaths: 126.】 【Reason for rejection: Every practitioner died by lightning strike.】 【Actual flaw: The cultivation sequence is reversed.】 【Correct method: Take the lightning strike first, then circulate your energy.】 So Gu Changqing begins practicing the useless techniques everyone knows are fatal. He turns an unwanted health-preserving art into an imperishable body that can endure ten thousand tribulations. He turns a basic saber technique used only for chopping wood into a divine art that can slay immortals. He repairs a breathing technique that was ninety percent incomplete, filling in the path to immortality. He even opens a cultivation clinic, specializing in cultivation deviation, blocked meridians, and difficult cases involving immortal bodies. A saber prodigy with severed meridians learns from him a saber technique that requires no meridians at all. The academy’s top disciple, whose spiritual energy flows in but never out, cultivates into a living spiritual meridian that can absorb and release the energy of heaven and earth with every breath. A half-demon born with eight conflicting spiritual roots learns to circulate all eight kinds of spiritual energy within their body. Years later, these people, branded useless by the immortal path, establish the world’s most untouchable sect: the Myriad Arts Sect. The Immortal Alliance summons the old masters of every sect and angrily denounces Gu Changqing for altering the ancestral teachings and openly spreading discarded cultivation techniques.