The Strange Republic of China: Immortal Life Begins by Saving the Master’s Wife

In the early years of the Great Shun Republic, a tumultuous era where new academia clashes with ancient customs, and rifles thunder alongside demonic sorcery. The lofty "Truth-Seekers" who pilfer the secrets of heaven remain blissfully unaware that they have long been tainted by unfathomable horrors, degenerating into living calamities—grotesque corpse-fiends that walk among men. Li Changsheng, a time-traveler, finds himself reborn as the lowest of the low—a corpse-stitcher at the city execution ground—with a mere forty days left to live. But fortune favors him with a single treasure: the "Scroll of Myriad Longevities." By refining lifespan, he brews divine powers. From stitching the nameless dead in the gutter to ascending as a transcendent cultivator, and ultimately to the throne of the ancient, unknowable immortals who once ruled the clouds... Since every god and Buddha in the heavens has fallen to sickness, let this mere mortal be the one to lay their bones to final rest.