I Tried to Ascend but Was Reincarnated

He spent thirty years in the martial world, desperate to return to modern civilization. When every thaumaturge in the Central Plains and every fabled sage in the Western Regions declared it impossible, he staked everything on the forbidden path of immortal ascension. Yet the moment the ritual tore his body apart, he blacked out—only to awaken in a strange new realm that was neither the modern world nor the Murim he once knew.