Start with everyday skills and grind your way to immortality.

Demons lurk within Black Mountain, their human skins flawless disguises. Along the riverbanks, malevolent spirits hunt, claiming lives in an instant. Powerful clans imprison the living, refining them into medicine. Remnants of the fallen dynasty, animating corpses, strive to restore their former glory. Sixty years ago, the Jiazi Demon Extermination Ritual failed—not only failing to cleanse the world, but severing humanity’s last remaining span of life. In this declining age, demons rage across the land, battles erupt north and south, and the kingdom’s fate hangs by a thread. Chen Qian, a transmigrator, awakens as a frail scholar burdened with a curse: he will not see his twenty-seventh year. Yet he carries with him a mysterious system. Every focused action—reading, breathing, eating, walking—can be honed into a skill, accruing experience and breaking through all limits. A single word becomes a prophecy, enough to slay gods themselves. His body, invulnerable…