I'm a Short-Selling Tycoon in the Cultivation World

Four hundred years later, the world of immortal cultivation has become corrupted. Spiritual roots have been securitized, cultivation can be leveraged, and even the success or failure of tribulation is reduced to red and green candlesticks on a stock chart.

Han Yan, a finance worker, transmigrates into the body of a debt-ridden rogue cultivator and binds himself to the Leek-Harvesting System. His very first mission is to short Jiang Zhuo, a genius with a fire spiritual root.

When he sees her spiritual root being ripped out by mechanical puppets in Zero-Sum Square, he realizes that the so-called exchange is nothing more than a breeding ground where ancient Fusion-stage monsters raise spirit-devouring embryos.

To fight back against this capitalist game that puts a price on human life, he joins forces with Lu Heng, a bankrupt quant, Zhao Sui, a lowly mine slave, and Tie Jiuzhang, an awakened puppet, to launch a "spiritual-root flash crash."

But the real enemy isn't the market chart. It's the human heart. When his former mentor Shang Wujiu murmurs, "I only wanted to give you a world where you wouldn't have to be priced," Han Yan finally understands:

In this world, the most precious freedom is refusing to be valued.

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