The Mirror Keeper: A Mortal Clan's Path to Immortality

The Hu clan, a small mortal family nestled in the mountains, has struggled to survive for generations while guarding a broken ancient bronze mirror. The sects ignore mortals, cultivation families plunder resources, and wild beasts frequently invade. Within the broken mirror lies a hidden realm that can nourish bloodlines and store spiritual materials, but it also harbors the danger of clan annihilation—if the secret of the artifact spirit is exposed, the entire clan will face a deadly pursuit. Without a powerful patron or a single protagonist defying fate, generation after generation of clan members endure, cultivate, form alliances through marriage, and establish rules to build the clan, steadily taking root in the harsh world of cultivation. This is the long epic of a mortal clan that, relying on an ancient mirror, carves out its own path to immortality. — Description from novelcodex.org