Dual Cultivation: The New Monkey King.
Ethan, a book writer, was brought into a world of cultivation. He thought he would be different than the protagonists of Wuxia novel he despised so much. But he was proven otherwise as he walked the path of the typical ruthless cultivator who let the cultivation world mold them
At the end of his life, by the hands of a cultivator he wronged in his ruthless path, he felt ashamed of himself.
But that wasn't the end for him. The ancestor of his death clan reversed time to the day he regained his memories of his rebirth, making the future life he lived seemed like a bad dream.
After realizing it wasn't a dream, Ethan swore he would walk the same path of his future past.
This time he would uphold his views and change the cultivation world instead of it changing him.
Not that the world will make it easy for him.
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