Immortal Wandering

Immortal Wandering is a classical xianxia novel by Diwo, serialized on Qidian and categorized under xianxia and cultivation civilization. The story opens with a resonant line—"Spring slumber unaware of dawn": sixteen-year-old village scholar Yang Yun wakes from a dream deeply uncertain of his own identity. In the dream he is a commanding cultivation grandmaster who laughs in the face of heavenly tribulation; awake, he is a poor young scholar toiling at his studies in hopes of official success. Before this Zhuangzi-dreams-of-a-butterfly puzzle is resolved, Yang Yun's most urgent wish proves almost comically modest: first, to eat a meal of braised pork. Once he has truly eaten meat, his wish grows slightly larger: to let himself and his family eat meat every day. Yet this seemingly tiny wish is about to face a severe test: an age of chaos is coming. Drawing on the cultivation memories and techniques seen in his dream, Yang Yun struggles up from the mundane world, protecting his family while seeking his own path between the chaos of the times and self-cultivation. The work interweaves the daily details of firewood, rice, oil, and salt with transcendent imagery of cultivation, tagged as "playing the pig to eat the tiger," "ordinary-folk flow," and "cautious flow," telling how an ordinary youth survives, rises, and seeks the Way in a time of chaos. The book runs about one million words in over three hundred chapters and is now complete.