I Found a Pocket World in a Junkyard

While clearing out old items, Gu Yan, a scrap collector at a recycling yard, unexpectedly came across a bronze cauldron covered in verdigris. It awakened a hidden blessed realm within him.

Medicinal herbs nourished by the realm’s spirit spring came alive like sprites. Its fragmentary scrolls recorded lost arcane arts, and its secret realm expanded automatically as his power grew. With the realm’s resources, he turned his fortunes around, going from a despised “scrap king” to someone who first cured his grandfather’s chronic illness, then astonished everyone at an appraisal convention with a thousand-year-old wild ginseng grown in the realm, drawing the attention of reclusive practitioners.

Facing threats from arcane clans and schemes by business rivals, he used the realm as his trump card and gradually uncovered the truth: the bronze cauldron was the “World Within an Inch” left behind by an ancient True Immortal, and his own bloodline carried a fateful connection to that immortal. In the end, amid the clash between the arcane world and the modern city, he forged a path of his own.