Immortals in My Left Eye

A high fever at the age of seven left Lu Wujiao with strange memories of modern medicine and a diseased left eye that wept in the light, turning the world into something grotesque and nauseating. His mother made him drink talisman water, and the physician diagnosed him with hysteria. Convinced he was incurably ill, he joined an immortal sect only to find medicine for his eye and become a clean, normal person again. At the sect’s selection, he became a peerless lightning prodigy destined to rise to greatness in a single step. But the girl next door, his childhood sweetheart, was identified by the Bone-Illuminating Mirror as a skin-peeling demon. An immortal master ran her through with a spear, sealed her in a box, and reduced her to ashes. The world saw a hideous monster devouring people. In his left eye alone, the one who died had always been a human girl crying, “I haven’t changed.” His master protects his own, his fellow disciples are openhearted, and the comfort of immortal pills in his belly and the sudden surge of divine power are all undeniably real. His body and the world rejoice in their evolution. Yet his left eye sees that the so-called Pure Yang Dao Embryo is a spiked bone cage that crushes the organs while its wearer revels in bliss, and the so-called Celestial Mountains of the Nine Heavens are floating islands parasitic on the carcass of a primordial beast. He tries with all his might to deceive himself and keep cultivating, until he digs up an ancient human city covered in rust beneath the scorched earth of the abyss. Then, in a desolate graveyard in Qingxi County, he unearths a second, perfectly preserved skeleton belonging to Su Tang The heavens shine brightly, the immortal path flourishes, and all the world sincerely rationalizes the absurd. So he was never mad. This weeping, diseased eye is the only living thing with a clear mind in this deranged world.