The Unfading Arcane Art

The Immortal's Smile

Do not envy the carefree life of a lord over ten thousand households; pity those who live a hundred years only to sigh at their white hair.

A lifetime of wealth and glory scatters like mist; half a life of splendor ends in the dust of the grave.

The sun and moon race by, and people grow old; time flies like an arrow, and even ghosts lament.

One day, when my ambition is fulfilled and I attain the Heavenly Dao, I'll smile as I watch the mortal world pass through one autumn after another.

Blurb: A human life lasts a hundred years, gone in the blink of an eye. Wealth and glory, grudges and love, are like fleeting clouds, and in the end all come to nothing. Only eternal life, deathless and indestructible, is the true path, and the goal I seek.

Who says the benevolent are invincible? Zhang Xuandao's kind and generous heart has brought him no good fortune, only one calamity after another. Will he come to his senses and fall into the demonic path, or stay true to his original intentions and cling to his Dao heart? The road to immortality is elusive. Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Meridian Condensation, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Deification are only the beginning. Everything is just getting started.