Summary
Guan Tong’s eyes can pierce every illusion. When Mount Penglai takes him in as a disciple, he discovers that its revered immortal elixirs are parasite eggs—and every cultivator is a vessel for a slime-worm that twists human beings into monsters. After his new sect slaughters the village that raised him, Guan Tong hides his resistance, feigns cultivation, and searches for a way to wake the immortals from their delusion. Yet the closer he comes to destroying Penglai, the more he must reckon with the senior brothers and sister who love him, the cost of truth, and one final doubt: what if the monster is inside him?