[Mortal's path to immortality, turning trash into treasure, cautious survival, no saintly savior, ruthless decisiveness]
"Before I join an immortal sect, I'll give myself to you once. That will repay you for taking care of me all these years!"
"After that, immortals and mortals belong to different worlds. There's no need for us to think of each other again!"
After one night of passion, Xu Changnian is abandoned by his fiancée. He retreats to a small mountain village, where he marries and raises a family.
A hundred leisurely years pass, and Xu Changnian grows old.
But then an immortal passing through the village discovers that he has a mutated Wind Spiritual Root, whose essence was stolen from him by someone's secret technique...
I've already picked out the perfect burial site, and now you're telling me I have a supreme-grade Heavenly Spiritual Root? Are you kidding me?!!
Fortunately, Xu Changnian carries a mysterious little cauldron that can turn trash into treasure!
Put in a junk pill laced with pill toxins, and get a top-grade Qi Gathering Pill?
Put in a broken flying sword, and it can be restored and even upgraded!
Put in a street-stall cultivation manual...
Years later, Xu Changnian rises from obscurity and attains the supreme Immortal Dao as a mere mortal!
When people ask how he did it, Xu Changnian says, "I don't have many virtues, but I'm exceptionally cautious. If you stay alive long enough, you'll become an immortal eventually!"
