Silver Fox & The Western Hero

Alex was willing to do anything to beat terminal cancer — including having his mind uploaded into a digital universe while his body awaited a cure. He expected a gradual start. Instead, he wakes naked in the hold of a ship full of raiders carrying enough poison to kill a city. His choices from this moment will shape the fate of an entire realm as he faces pirates, ruthless cultivators, and fearsome demigods on his first steps along a path of power.

Alex's last clear memory was of racing into battle on a desperate mission of mercy. He wakes with a steel collar around his neck, stripped of weapons and armor, about to be sold at auction. Determined to reach Dragon Academy and master the cultivator's arts, he must fight his way through slavers, corrupt merchants, spirit beasts, and bloodthirsty cultivators — because in a world where strength is everything, only the strong are truly free.

Alex has earned his place at Dragon Academy — but surviving it is another matter. As a despised outsider, the school's elite will stop at nothing to cripple or kill him, and his own mentor is notorious for throwing disciples into impossible odds. Alex faces two paths: be forged by his enemies' hatred into a weapon capable of cutting them all down, or be hammered into slag.

Alex survives a Silver Alchemist's best efforts to destroy him — but at a terrible price. Stripped of all aid and allies, he must reach the capital city while dodging enemies and traps, or millions of innocents — including the first girl to ever touch his heart — will perish in terror and flame. His resolve is put to the ultimate test, and the path through it may forge the deadliest cultivator this world has ever known.

With twenty million lives on the line, Alex will do whatever it takes to reach the city of Baidushi. His enemies have done the unthinkable: destroyed his ability to reincarnate, reducing his countless lives to one. So be it — now he holds nothing back. He embraces the most forbidden of all techniques and races toward a city in dire peril and the princess he has sworn to save.

Alex has cheated death yet again, slipping past slavers, assassins, and an opposing army for the sake of a city in peril and the girl he loves. Now all he must do is climb ten thousand steps alongside hopefuls and hardened killers and make it to the summit in one piece — then the academy must accept him as a student, no matter how many of them want him dead.

Alex has ascended farther than anyone thought possible and claimed a title as sacred as the right to rule in the Golden Realms. But his enemies will not accept his rise. Even retreating to his own pocket realm and offering sanctuary to hundreds of desperate cultivators cannot stop an invading army from hunting his world. Alex will do whatever it takes to keep his sanctuary safe and his people free — even if it means facing down an entire army and the Red Prince himself.

Alex sacrificed everything to cripple a divine tyrant, paying the ultimate price for everyone he loved. Now he has a second chance — a fresh start, free from his enemies' schemes, with the choice to live peacefully in a distant desert city or turn around and race to the aid of a doomed caravan about to be overrun by raiders. The choice is his.