The Hall of Youdu in the Mountains and Seas

On the day a beast tide erupted in the secret realm of the Mountains and Seas, Lin Zhao was crouched in the Qingxuan Sect's fire room, scrubbing soot off the charcoal.

His senior brother's taunts still rang in his ears: "A good-for-nothing at the third level of Qi Refining like you won't even get close enough to touch a fox's fur in the secret realm!"

But when his fingertips touched the copper seal glowing with an eerie light among the firewood, everything changed...

A celestial underworld palace appeared within him, bringing accelerated time, inherited cultivation arts, contracts with demons and beasts...

Every opportunity cultivators dreamed of became his "newbie gift pack"!

At Qingqiu Mountain, he cultivated in the celestial palace until he reached Foundation Establishment, then turned around and took a nine-tailed fox as his mount.

At Kunlun Ruins, he used a secret realm map to avoid the storm zone and dug up the Pangu Axe, which had lain dormant for ten thousand years.

In Candle Dragon Valley, the young dragon he had contracted swallowed a dragon core, then turned around and blasted open a crack in the chaos aura for him!

When he stood atop the tenth secret realm, holding ten divine weapons, the celestial palace finally revealed the truth:

"It wasn't a coincidence. You were chosen by an ancient seal to be the Wasteland Guardian."

By then, across the Nine Provinces of the Central Plains, everyone who had once looked down on him was bowing their heads...

The servant boy who had once been trampled into the fire room had already become the final barrier protecting the world of Mountains and Seas.