“Your spirit root is defective. You’re cast out of the family!”
The verdict rang out in the pouring rain, turning Jiang Xuan into the biggest laughingstock in Qingyun City. As his trembling hand slipped from the Spirit-Testing Stele, no one noticed the three inscriptions at its base flicker strangely, not even the Jiang family’s Great Elder, who had secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Carrying the mysterious jade pendant his mother had left him, Jiang Xuan saved a dying old beggar in a ruined temple. The bronze ring the old man pressed into his hand before dying turned out to be the legendary natal sacred artifact of the Primordial Sage! Hidden within the ring were the Primordial Dao Scripture and a secret realm where time flowed faster, along with a sharp-tongued young Saint Spirit.
“Nine turns of Foundation Establishment to become a true sage?” As Jiang Xuan studied cultivation arts completely unlike the traditional system, the bloodline dormant in him for years suddenly surged. It turned out that his so-called “defective spirit root” was actually a supreme “Saint Vein” sealed away!
When he defeated a Jiang family prodigy at the Golden Core stage with only the first turn of Foundation Establishment, all of Qingyun City was shaken. But Jiang Xuan did not know that:
- His mother had set up nine layers of seals at the cost of her life to protect him.
- His last living blood relative was locked in the deepest level of the Jiang family dungeon.
- The nine rare treasures of heaven and earth needed to awaken the young Saint Spirit were the greatest treasures of various factions.
From Qingyun City to the Sacred Realm of the Nine Heavens, Jiang Xuan forms spells with his left hand and wields a heavy black-iron sword with his right, while behind him trail a demon clan saintess, the young lady of Medicine King Valley, and a runaway saintess from the Netherworld Hall, all of whom he somehow won over along the way…
“You say a sage should care for the whole world?” He cleaved open the Jiang family ancestral shrine, revealing a demonic formation beneath it, built on the blood sacrifice of ten thousand people. “But my path to sainthood starts with paying back every grudge!”
