Tales of Cultivation: Why Pretend You’re Maxed Out?

Xu An has spent three years as a menial disciple at the Longevity Sect. His greatest wish isn't to ascend to immortality, but to save up enough spirit stones to live a few more years. Then he takes a meal-delivery job and encounters a paper-doll junior sister, a weeping alchemy furnace, and a blood moon opening its eye beneath the water. That's when he realizes the sect rules aren't there to scare anyone: break them and you die, but following them may not save you either. Fortunately, after he dies, he can return to the past and choose one of three rewards. While others choose cultivation manuals, he chooses the power to see through things. While others meditate in seclusion, he risks his life to test the rules. As long as he makes it back alive, he expects double the spirit stones, and he'll make sure the debt for saving his life is properly repaid. But when a fifth rule appears on the wall, bearing his name, Xu An realizes the Menial Disciple Peak isn't the only thing watching him. The moon in the sky and the screams from the Ascension Platform seem to point to the same secret: becoming an immortal means getting eaten by something.