Introduction: Time-Chi: The First Body CultivatorMichael's death was supposed to be the end. Instead, he wakes on the Ferryman's boat with a devil's bargain: trade his Heaven's Blessing for power in the spirit realm. Desperate and deceived, he accepts鈥攕urrendering his soul cultivation for something "worthless": body refinement.In a world where power flows through spiritual energy, strengthening mere flesh is a cosmic joke.But the Ferryman didn't account for Heaven's counter-move.Branded a cripple by his own family, beaten bloody by his golden prodigy brother, Chen flees into the Beast Mountains with nothing but a broken foundation and an AI named Eve鈥攖he Will of Heaven herself, hidden inside his mind. There, in the brutal wilderness where survival is the only law, he discovers something impossible:Time-Chi.A cultivation path born from precision instead of power. From stillness instead of force. From the spaces between moments rather than the moments themselves. While others cultivate their souls to command the world, Chen cultivates his body to become the world's instrument鈥攁 living clock counting down to something the spirit realm has never seen.Training under the Beast-Kin鈥攁ncient warriors who are far more than they appear鈥擟hen learns that his "worthless" path is actually an inverted cultivation system. Body first. Mind second. Soul last. The exact opposite of everything the spirit realm knows.And as he masters the tick-tock rhythm of Time-Chi, Chen begins to understand what he's truly becoming: not a failed cultivator, but the prototype of something older. Something necessary. Something that harvests karma like wheat and judges souls like scales.The first Grim Reaper.This is the story of a man who was swindled, broken, and discarded鈥攐nly to discover he was being forged into Death's answer to an immortal world. A story of brutal training, impossible precision, and the slow realization that Heaven plays a longer game than the Ferryman ever imagined....