A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Starting as a Rogue Cultivator

"A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Starting as a Rogue Cultivator" by: A Cup of Coke Without Ice

Copywriter:

This book is also known as "Intercepting the Heavenly Bottle at the Start"!

Reborn in the world of "A Mortal's Journey to Immortality", he struggles and fights his way to transcend the shackles of the Heavenly Dao.

The early chapters, set in the human realm, focused on improving the environment and leaving behind a legacy.

In the middle stage of the Spirit Realm arc, he contracts with true spirits, traverses the rifts in the interface space between the Spirit Realm and the Human Realm, and creates a lower realm to nurture himself.

The battle for supremacy has begun, for the benefit of future generations.

In the later Immortal Realm arc, the protagonist stands on either the ancient or modern side, ultimately reaching the pinnacle.

When one person attains the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven.

Author's custom tags: Ordinary People, Dark-hearted

Entering the mortal realm

Chapter 1 Heading Straight to the Seven Mysteries Gate

As the sun rises, a brand new day begins.

Inside a tree hollow in the dense forest, a figure with long, willow-like eyebrows, a jade-like body, broad shoulders, a straight back, long hair hanging down to his shoulders, and a silver thread hidden in his hairline, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his sharp, eagle-like eyes.

After tidying up briefly, the young man, who resembled Jiao Enjun's version of Erlang Shen, walked out of the dense forest and onto the nearby official road with his sharp edge concealed.

"The Seven Mysteries Sect is just ahead. I wonder what timeline we're in now. I hope Old Demon Han hasn't obtained the Dark Green Bottle yet..."

Well, he won't ask for that anymore.

He would be content if he could interfere with the plot before the old demon killed "Golden Light Master".

……

The boy's name is Wang Li. He comes from another world and was born here sixteen years ago.

At first, having been reborn into a wealthy merchant family, he often listened to storytellers recount the glorious deeds of certain heroes and thought he had transmigrated into a martial arts world.

Therefore, he maintained a good mindset, was neither impatient nor irritable, and naturally lived a leisurely and carefree life, lying flat and comfortable like a salted fish for ten years.

But then came the appearance of a Celestial Master surnamed Wu, and the master's exquisite "Firebird Technique" was displayed before him; his father in this life gritted his teeth and painfully spent a thousand taels of gold; at the age of ten, the venerable Celestial Master Wu discovered that he possessed the spiritual root of a cultivator; his father offered him a hundred-year-old spiritual herb, and the master was overjoyed; he successfully became a disciple and acquired a beginner-level fire-attribute cultivation technique; finally, when he cultivated his first wisp of magical power…

Wang Li suddenly realized the truth.

Screw martial arts, I love the world of cultivation!

This is a world of high-level martial arts and fantasy cultivation, a world where cultivators can move mountains and overturn seas.

As for ordinary people, even if they are kings, nobles, generals, or even the emperor, they are nothing more than ants.

No matter how glorious one's life may be, after a hundred years one will inevitably turn into a handful of dust.

At that moment, he was overwhelmed with excitement and exhilaration.

The salted fish's mentality has completely changed:

He wants to cultivate immortality, he wants to live forever, he wants to climb to the very top of the immortal path!

He doesn't want his grave to be overgrown with weeds a hundred years from now!

As his cultivation deepened over the next two years, reaching the third level of Qi Refining, he heard the words "Yue Kingdom Immortal Cultivation World," "Tai Nan Small Gathering," and "Ascension to Immortality Conference" uttered by his teacher.

He became even more certain that this world was a cultivation world, and it was the world of "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality," which he had read three times and listened to at least five times in his previous life!

However, at this moment, Wang Li was a little confused.

Without him.

Since the ancient demonic calamity, the quality and concentration of the primordial energy in this world have decreased significantly, leading to a gradual scarcity of opportunities.

This was anything but friendly to the two of them, a master and disciple who were just independent cultivators.

Let's look at this from a lower rank perspective:

In the Tiannan Continent, whether it's spirit stone mines or the production areas of spirit herbs and medicines, almost all resource points are controlled by major cultivation sects or families, making it extremely difficult to obtain even a Foundation Establishment Pill.

However, the foundation-building stage is a challenge.

For those with a unique spiritual root or a dual spiritual root, two spiritual roots are more reliable; for those with a triple spiritual root, four spiritual roots are even more dependable. The probability of succeeding by consuming one spiritual root is less than one in ten, and succeeding by consuming two spiritual roots is considered quite lucky.

The success rate for Core Formation is only a fraction of a percent, or even a hundred percent.

The fact that there are only eight Core Formation elders among the hundreds of Foundation Establishment stage cultivators in Huangfeng Valley speaks volumes.

It should be noted that the Yue Kingdom, where Huangfeng Valley is located, is a relatively wealthy middle-class country in southern China.

In a smaller country, the competitive pressure is even greater.

Moreover, in the southern region, high-level demonic beasts are almost extinct, and old spiritual herbs and medicines are rare. Even the resource points held by the major sects are non-renewable.

The most famous example is the Bloodstained Forbidden Land controlled by the seven factions of the Yue Kingdom.

Looking at it from a higher level:

The Yue Kingdom, spanning 100,000 li, only had a few Nascent Soul stage cultivators; that's equivalent to several Earth-sized territories being able to support just a few people.

What is Wang Li anyway?

There are only a handful of Heavenly Treasures, and only a few pills that can help people break through to the Nascent Soul stage. The truly top-tier methods in the mortal realm are even more difficult to find.

Even with great fortune, Han Laomo still had to work himself to the bone and risk his life to get what he wanted, even with the small bottle.

If it weren't for the protagonist's halo, Han Li would have died countless times already.

One can imagine how difficult it is to cross the threshold of the Nascent Soul stage.

What is Wang Li anyway?

That's why he got anxious.

The dark green bottle is one of them. If he can obtain this treasure, his future path will be at least three levels easier.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he was 50 meters ahead of the average cultivator on the 100-meter track.

The "Ascension Token" is the second one. This thing allows him to skip many tedious procedures and directly join Huangfeng Valley, one of the seven sects. Even if his talent is one in a million, it is not a problem.

Furthermore, one can obtain a "Foundation Building Pill" of immense value. Even if it is embezzled by someone, there is still considerable room for maneuver if one makes the right choices.

Therefore, he had no choice but to be anxious.

If I gain the former, I am fortunate; if I lose it, it is my fate.

But if the latter is also lost, it's practically equivalent to the path to immortality being severed!

(What the protagonist doesn't know is that at the moment he unexpectedly traveled here, the timeline of this world and many other great worlds in the chaos changed, all traces of the past were erased, and only the unknown future remained!)

In addition, in the Celestial Court of the Immortal Realm, Gu Huojin, who had the most profound understanding of the Dao of Time, saw a fragmented piece of the future through a time rift the moment the protagonist traveled through time. He saw the existence of two Han Lis!

And his own demise!

His expression was naturally extremely unpleasant!

After analyzing the background and schemes of the Lord of Samsara, he immediately gathered several Dao Ancestors and dozens of Great Luo warriors from the Heavenly Court to launch a siege against this scourge of Samsara! He practically abandoned everything to hunt down the Lord of Samsara! He was too busy protecting himself to care about anything else in the lower realms.

He only reached the advanced stage of the third level of Qi Refining in the last two years, and the quality of his spiritual root is obviously not the Heavenly Spiritual Root valued by various sects.

In addition, his affinity for fire-based magic and the fire-based techniques he practiced, provided by his cheap teacher, clearly indicate that he does not possess a unique spiritual root.

Compared to Han Laomo's aptitude of reaching the third level of Qi Refining in the first three years, Wang Li's aptitude is significantly better, and he is preliminarily judged to have dual or triple spiritual roots.

Putting aside the slight advantage provided by the family resources, the possibility of having three spiritual roots is greater.

As for those with three spiritual roots, if they remain as independent cultivators without the support of a sect, they will find it difficult to even reach the Foundation Establishment stage in their lifetime, and are more likely to die at the hands of invading demonic cultivators.

So, we have to be in a hurry.

Fortunately, he still has some time: based on the current relatively calm situation, it can be inferred that the Seven Sects have not yet been destroyed by the demonic path, nor have they become stray dogs, and the cultivation world of Yue Kingdom is still under the control of the Seven Sects.

In other words, the great war that had a wide-ranging impact did not break out, and the latest timeline would be the stage when Han Laomo achieved the Foundation Establishment stage.

Subsequently, he spared no expense and used his father's caravan to repeatedly investigate the capital of Yue, the Prince Xin's Palace.

Persistence pays off, and he eventually learned that the current Prince Xin was only in his early twenties, had no children, and had an old steward in his household. More importantly, the previous Prince Xin had passed away just two years prior.

He was overjoyed upon receiving the news.

Okay, don't get me wrong, it's not because of any grudge against the Prince Xin's Mansion, it's just about determining the timeline.

Before his father's caravan could find out any information about the Seven Mysteries Sect or the Wild Wolf Gang, he couldn't accurately determine the current timeline and had to take a detour to find out.

This refers to the situation at the King's Palace in the capital of Yue.

If I remember correctly, in the original story, Han Laomo, who was in the Foundation Establishment stage, was instructed by his master Li Huayuan to go to the capital of Yue Kingdom to protect a secular family, I think it was called the Qin family. During this time, he accidentally got into a series of entanglements with the Xin Wang Mansion.

At that time, the seven sects and the demonic path were at war, and the situation was extremely tense. Even the hermits and independent cultivators had heard the news.

At that time, the young prince of the Xinwang Mansion, who had cultivated demonic arts, appeared to be around twenty years old.

The old prince is still alive, and he has a skilled steward under his command who used to be a江湖 (jianghu, a term referring to the martial arts world) figure.

Therefore, conservatively speaking, this time point should be more than 20 years before Han Laomo accepted his master's order to start the capital city storyline.

What was Han Li doing more than 20 years ago?

Has the storyline of "A Mortal's Journey to Immortality" officially begun?

Wang Li could not be confirmed.

Because Han Laomo couldn't determine how long it took him to successfully establish his foundation in Huangfeng Valley, and the original work didn't specify the exact time.

Even so, it's still great news, isn't it?

In the following two years, more good news came.