Ling Mo is treated like refuse by his family and becomes a laughingstock within his sect. With his meridians clogged, he seems trapped in a mire, unable to make progress in cultivation, and the name "good-for-nothing" follows him like a shadow. For years, he endures abuse and struggles to survive. Who could have guessed that the turning point in his fate would begin with a broken jade pendant left by his mother and a stone stele covered in strange, twisted symbols in a forbidden cave dwelling?
However, Ling Mo is not truly a good-for-nothing. He is actually a "Heaven-Forsaken One," cursed by the upper realm and burdened with a Chaos Dao Body, or perhaps a Source-Devouring Spiritual Root. This constitution is regarded as the source of calamity, yet it also conceals the key to breaking the deadlock, like a brilliant star wrapped in darkness. With sheer willpower and guidance from the jade pendant, Ling Mo steps through the gateway to the boundless path of formations. But what he finds is not the smooth road to immortality he might have hoped for. It is a shocking deception that has enshrouded the entire world.
Why is spiritual energy growing ever thinner? Why is the path to ascension fraught with dangers from which nine out of ten will never return? And why have inner demons run rampant? Behind it all lies an ancient prohibition known as the "Spiritual Energy Shackles," along with the cold "Harvesting Plan" carried out by the exalted "Heaven Patrol Bureau." In the eyes of those mighty beings in the upper realm, the countless living creatures of the lower realm are nothing but "Dao-source" fertilizer waiting to be harvested. The so-called quest to cultivate immortality and seek the Dao is actually a brutal "pasture" game in which others reap the rewards.
From an inexperienced boy in Qingyang City to a steadfast disciple of the Qingyun Sect; from the strange mists hanging over Fallen Immortal Valley to the energy-eroding forbidden zone of the God-Burying Abyss, every step Ling Mo takes is treacherous, fraught with danger. He uses formations
