Chu Chen is the universally acknowledged good-for-nothing of the Chu family in Qingyan City. With a damaged spiritual root, he cannot properly absorb spiritual energy, and suffers bullying and mockery within the family. Even Su Yao, his fiancée since childhood, publicly humiliates him at a family banquet in front of everyone and resolutely breaks off their engagement. By chance, he triggers a mysterious spiritual abyss in the family's forbidden grounds, where the remnant soul of an ancient powerhouse teaches him the Chaos Spiritual Art and the Ten Thousand Pills True Explanation. From then on, he embarks on a path of cultivation that defies fate. His unique techniques let him rapidly advance his cultivation, while his miraculous alchemy amazes the world around him, and he repays every past humiliation in kind. Along the way, he meets loyal and steadfast friends and wins the affection of confidantes, facing the trials and dangers of cultivation together with them. From a good-for-nothing scorned by all, he transforms into someone the entire cultivation world fears, writing his own legendary chapter on the Spirit Illusion Continent.