THE HOLLOW IMMORTAL

**THE HOLLOW IMMORTAL** Wang Kai wanted one thing: to be left alone. Six years as a junior archivist in the worst library of the Pale Candle Sect. No enemies, no rivals, no cultivation ambitions. Just dust and old books and the peace of a man who had opted out of the world's endless power struggle. Then he woke up with his entire sect in ruins around him. He wasn't dead. He should have been. Someone performed an illegal immortality experiment nearby. The subject didn't survive. The formula reached for the nearest compatible soul in its final moment — and found Wang Kai. In his library. Reading. Now he's permanently bound to an immortality imprint he never consented to, carrying a bloodline connection to an ancient sect so powerful that Immortal Emperors once stopped to take notice — and he has absolutely no idea what to do with any of it. His plan: stay low, get strong enough to never be caught off guard again, and find a quiet corner of the universe to exist in. The universe disagrees. *A cultivation story about a man who wanted nothing and received everything he didn't ask for.*