[No Female Lead] [Slow Burn] [Keeping a Low Profile]
The Tianqi Continent is a cultivation world where one needs a spiritual root to practice. Perhaps only one person in a thousand is born with one. Ordinary people are treated like beasts and struggle to survive from day to day. Then a genius invents a miraculous cultivation technique called the Heaven-Mending Art. It can extract spiritual roots from the body. Although the roots are slightly damaged in the process, a middle-grade root is still far superior to a low-grade one. The genius dreams of equality for all, but the darkness of human nature sends the Heaven-Mending Art down the wrong path. The spiritual roots of all those with exceptional talent are stolen and sold. Anyone without enough power cannot protect their own root. Those born into great factions are safe, but people without backing, as well as members of minor factions, have their roots stolen. The entire cultivation world falls into a bizarre state.
After death, a body's spiritual root does not dissipate for the first seven days. As a result, the cultivation world is awash with spiritual roots, and anyone can practice cultivation. Of course, ordinary people can only obtain low-grade roots. Getting a middle-grade root requires paying a hefty price, while high-grade roots remain in the hands of the great factions, leaving no chance for anyone else to acquire one.
Yun Mo transmigrates into this world, but on his very first day, people discover that he has a supreme-grade spiritual root. They steal it and replace it with a low-grade root. He should have been killed to prevent him from seeking revenge, but Yu Mo's root was supreme-grade, after all, so his descendants' roots would be good too. As a result, he is kept in captivity for seventeen years, living without a care and getting a new wife every day. Yu Mo has already given up, but then a System suddenly arrives, and it just keeps getting stranger.
