One law reigns supreme: Death is power. I was a low-ranking water cultivator who'd given up on the path of power and pretty much life. To get by, I sold maps with shady details. My customers hated them. Lana loved them. She broke me out of my cocoon and introduced me to a new life of adventuring.  On a mission to the Bloodwoods, the "Benevolent Emperor" impaled me on a stake. In a cruel twist of fate, I watched my squad die repeatedly until a squid-faced monster freed me. Calamari needed me to save his people. I had other plans. I will cultivate the ocean's depths to free my friends from Death's cold hands. After all, I had nothing to lose; my heart died with my squad.  If I lived, so could they… so could she What to Expect:      Loops      Average to Powerful MC      Lite LitRPG Elements, including levels and classes      An Ice/water cultivator      And a love story      No Possessions, though there will be some mind-tinkering and shenanigans.      This is a rewrite of 3001 Paths to Death. Book 1 is complete!