Ordinary Immortal Diary

Chen San, on a delivery run, is hit by a car and has his soul cross into a cultivation world called the Qingyun Realm, taking over the body of a homeless boy who had just starved and frozen to death and happened to share his name. After the initial panic and confusion, he witnesses cultivators flying on swords and commanding wind and rain, and is deeply shaken, resolving to set foot on the path of immortality.

Reality, however, is brutally harsh. His talent is nothing more than the most ordinary miscellaneous spirit root, and he repeatedly runs into walls in the recruitment tests of major sects. Yet, relying on the extreme endurance honed during his previous life as a delivery worker, his instinct for optimizing routes—now cultivation techniques—and his resilience in refusing to give up, he seizes a tiny opportunity and successfully joins the third-rate cultivation sect Liuyun Sect as a handyman disciple.

At Liuyun Sect, Chen San’s status is lowly, and he is assigned the hardest and most exhausting labor in the medicinal garden. While enduring the bullying of fellow disciples and exploitation by the supervisors, he uses every fragment of spare time to cultivate with near self-tormenting diligence. He incorporates his former way of thinking into cultivation: using data analysis to record the efficiency of spiritual qi absorption, time management to plan each day’s labor and cultivation, and induction and summary to review every detail of spell casting... He records all of his observations, thoughts, and insights in a simple notebook called Diary of a Mortal Immortal.