The Tide-Rising Art

[Classic Cultivation + Clear-Headed Strong Female Lead + No Romance + A Touch of Everyone Loves Her]

She is the famous deadweight of the Lingchao Sect.

With a useless spiritual root and no knack for even entering the Qi Refining stage, she has spent three years tending the kitchen fire. Everyone in the sect is waiting to kick her out at the end of the month.

No one knows her spiritual root isn't useless at all. Someone tampered with it.

Three years ago, the instant the spiritual root testing stone lit up, a deep-sea blue glow flashed and vanished, replaced by a glaring gray.

In three years working in the kitchen, she learned to read formation patterns like flowing water and observe spiritual energy like the tides, seeing through every hidden card the Lingchao Sect held.

When she was eight, her adoptive mother fell to her death from a cliff. A blood-soaked talisman among her belongings told her it was no accident.

At the sect's grand examination, Ling Shuanghua publicly forced her onto the stage, hoping to humiliate her. With a single finger, she toppled an eighth-level Qi Refiner, and the whole crowd fell silent.

The only Tide Spirit Root in ten thousand years had simply awakened a little late.

The young master of Cangwu Pavilion handed her a bamboo slip: