Honghuang: From the Start, Spiritual Qi Dried Up, Leaving Me No Choice

The Primordial World, once a place where immortals gathered to pay homage, has been drained of spiritual energy for three thousand years after an unknown calamity! Immortal mountains have collapsed, spiritual ley lines have been severed, and the mighty beings who once commanded the wind and rain have lost all their powers, living worse than ordinary mortals. Lu Chen, a low-ranking cultivator who has just transmigrated and has not even completed the first step of drawing qi into his body, faces death by starvation from the start.

At the brink of despair, he unexpectedly activates a damaged “Myriad Worlds Labor Brokerage System” in the ruins. To survive, Lu Chen is forced to become the first “wage worker” in the history of the Primordial World. His first absurd assignment is to help the famished Sect Master Tongtian, whose eyes are practically glowing green, set up a stall on the edge of the chaos ruins and sell scraps of his treasured “Chaos Spirit Treasures,” which can no longer stir up even a trace of spiritual energy! Watching the former saintly patriarch, who once broke ten thousand techniques with a single sword, haggle with a down-and-out wandering immortal over a few mundane spirit stones leaves Lu Chen's worldview in pieces.

But this is only the beginning. Before long, Empress Nuwa needs people to make clay figures, and some powerless folks to clear land and farm; the two saints, Jieyin and Zhunti, drag him into promoting “chicken soup for the soul.”

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.