Reflected Immortal [Slow Burn Cultivation]

Two years ago a farm boy pulled a treasure out of a flooded stream. He still has no idea what it is. Two other people in the village do. And the treasure is running out. Above the gorge there is a sect. Every third autumn it comes down and takes one child away to sweep its floors, and that is the best thing that can happen to a family in Baisong. Chai has four years until he is old enough to be chosen, and his chief has told him to spend every one of them being nobody at all. In this world the road to immortality is the severing of attachment, and the people who teach it are not wrong. A cultivator who feels nothing does not falter. A cultivator who does not falter does not die at the height where faltering kills you. One must understand loss to obtain growth. Chai Chiu is about to be given every reason to believe that. What this is: Xianxia. Qi, realms, sects, five elements, wells and channels. No system, no status screens, no interface.Real progression with a hard floor. He starts with nothing, in a wind valley with no metal qi in it, and every step costs something.A slow burn that turns hard in Chapter Ten. Mind the content warnings.Chapters of roughly 2,500 words.