[No System] [Traditional, slow-paced cultivation power fantasy] This is an early practice work by the author and isn’t very polished. For a more mature read, try The Mortal’s Path to Immortality.
The protagonist, Jiang Feng, transmigrates into a bandit’s den. He’s just talked his way into becoming the boss when a cool, celestial cultivator named Chen Qingxue “rescues” him and brings him to the Daoxuan Sect. He thinks he’s beginning his path to immortality, but instead ends up as the lowest-ranking menial disciple, sweating day after day in a dark, sunless mine.
By chance, Jiang Feng digs up a mysterious jade-green gourd deep in the mine. Thanks to this heaven-defying opportunity, his cultivation advances by leaps and bounds. He breaks through to the second level of Qi Refining in ten days, astounding the entire sect and even drawing the sect leader to the mine in person.
But a spiritual root test that draws everyone’s attention reveals that he is, in fact, a good-for-nothing by the cultivation world’s standards: a false spiritual root! Having fallen from the heights of a celestial prodigy into the mud at the bottom of the mine, he faces the sect leader’s scorn and fury, along with his fellow disciples’ mockery and ostracism. At the bottom of this brutal sect, where the strong prey on the weak, he vows to carve out his own road to immortality with a false spiritual root and a good-for-nothing’s body...
