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A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality
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The genre-defining "mortal cultivator": no cheat, no genius bloodline — just grit, pills, and decades of patience.
Han Li is a mortal boy from a rural village with no spiritual root to speak of. Through a chance encounter he joins a minor sect, but his path is the slow, careful one: rely on pills, formations, and careful escape rather than raw talent. Wang Yu built the template that every "ordinary-protagonist-becomes-immortal" novel follows, and the novel remains one of the highest-rated xianxia ever written. The new English translation (Royal Road / WebNovel 2022-2024) finally lets overseas readers experience this 5-million-word classic without machine-translation pain. Dense but rewarding — read it once and every later xianxia will reference it.
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What readers say
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I've read many Wuxia and Xianxia stories by now. This one is still my favorite. The main character is a guy of low talent, but very good brain in his decisions. He is not the good hero who saves people no matter what the situation is, however he is not even evil either, and if he can help someone without any consequence for himself he would do it.
It’s a cultivation novel with the familiar storyline of the MC traveling into different lands to find resources to increase his strength and skills. The unique features about this book is the imaginative scenarios shown in the early arcs. The author added interesting secondary characters in these early scenarios that show them with depth.
Got to chapter 750/1500 after what I believe to be 36 hours of reading (iOS update threw me for a loop, and I can’t tell which hours were logged for which books anymore) This started as 4 star ‘I really liked it’ xianxia, with a mc that had interesting interactions with side characters, wasn’t OP, and had great fights.
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