The Price of Ascension

Lu Moyao has spent five years in a cultivation world without ever sensing qi. In a world where talent determines destiny, he should have remained a nobody forever. Then his system offers him something impossible: an optimized path to ascension. For the first time, Lu Moyao can step onto the road of cultivation. But every reward has a cost, and every step forward may demand that he give up something he once believed made life worth living. As he rises from a powerless villager to a cultivator walking a dangerous path, Lu Moyao must navigate ruthless sects, hidden forces, deadly trials, and the cold logic of a system that always asks for a price. The Price of Ascension is a cultivation progression fantasy about power, sacrifice, and the boundary between human choice and machine calculation.