Seeking the Way to Immortality, Starting as a Death-Row Prisoner

In the fortieth year of the Dakang era, Emperor Qian launches a massive manhunt for Taoists, desperate to find a path to immortality. Anyone who cannot make him immortal is sentenced to the harshest punishment.

Chen Xun transmigrates to another world and finds himself on his knees at the execution ground, about to be beheaded. He is utterly bewildered.

He wants to fight back, but he is bound hand and foot and cannot move. All he can do is watch as the executioner's blade falls...

The blade rises and falls, his head is severed from his body, and just as his soul leaves his flesh, his golden finger finally arrives!

Then, before everyone's eyes, he stages a