Heaven Can’t Keep Up [A Cultivation Progression Fantasy]

Other cultivators need talent. Lu Zhiyuan needs enough silver to cheat. Trapped in a body with dismal martial aptitude and bound to a clinic that owns twenty years of his life, he has no powerful family, no respected master, and no safe way out. In this land, the weak work until they break. Those who resist may not live long enough to regret it. But a mysterious system offers him a loophole: pay to simplify a technique, then build mastery through ordinary actions. A breathing method becomes breathing. A movement art becomes walking. Even cooking can sharpen his alchemy skills. For the first time, strength is something he can reach. Freedom might be, too. The catch is that every shortcut costs money, and the techniques worth learning are rarely within a servant's reach. To keep advancing, Lu Zhiyuan must turn alchemy into income, choose his fights carefully, and keep his best tricks to himself. He can make practice easier. He still has to earn every breakthrough. Meanwhile, armed factions squeeze the cities, powerful cultivators control the resources, and unnatural things wait beyond the safety of the streets. Some dangers can be outrun. Others can make him forget he's in danger. Every new technique gives him another way to survive. Every step toward greater power brings him within reach of enemies who can kill him before he uses it. Heaven Can’t Keep Up [A Cultivation Progression Fantasy] begins a cultivation progression fantasy with LitRPG elements, visible skill growth, inventive training shortcuts, and a resourceful protagonist who knows when to strike—and when to disappear. When even seasoned cultivators fear what lies ahead, can he grow fast enough to survive it? — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Heaven Can’t Keep Up [A Cultivation Progression Fantasy] — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠