I Cultivate Immortality by Restoring Cultural Relics

Gu Yan takes over Langhuan Pavilion, the shabby antique restoration studio his grandfather left behind, and unexpectedly awakens the Attribute Extraction System.

Restore an artifact, and he can extract an ability attribute that has lain dormant for a thousand years:

Restore the "Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion" and gain [Cloud-Wandering, Dragon-Startling], a movement technique that shatters the void;

Restore a bronze sword from the Qin Mausoleum and gain [The Emperor's Wrath], a single strike that sends a chill across the nineteen provinces;

Restore bamboo slips of the "Treatise on Cold Damage" and gain [Revive the Dead and Regrow Flesh and Bone], healing the sick and saving the dying;

Restore a fragment of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and gain [Torch Dragon's Eye], opening his eyes to bring day and closing them to bring night.

Starting with a little shop on Jiangcheng's old street, Gu Yan grows stronger with every restoration. A demolition crew? One sword strike chills the air and leaves everyone cowed. Demonic beasts appear? He traps them in the world within a painting. An aristocratic clan provokes him? He stacks his attributes and steamrolls his peers.

Then ancient evil creatures tear open the sky. All living things wail, and the human world teeters on the brink of destruction.

Gu Yan simply unrolls a newly restored ancient painting at his leisure and dips his brush in ink.

"Don't rush. Let me put down the first stroke."