Shen Qingtang has lived in the cultivation family of the Shen clan for fifteen years. In everyone's eyes, she is a "useless adopted daughter" with a mixed spiritual root. Her adopted brother steals her opportunities, and she smiles and yields. Her adoptive mother treats her as a "disaster-deflecting furnace cauldron," and she silently endures it. Even cultivators from the sect dare to point at her and sneer, "An outsider has no right to cultivate."
Everyone thinks she will vanish without a trace, like dust, during some family sacrifice.
Until the day her adoptive mother, hoping to curry favor with a rival sect, personally shoves her into an elder's alchemy furnace. As her adopted brother hands her poison to suppress her cultivation, the "useless jade pendant" she always carries suddenly shatters.
An ancient pure spiritual root awakens, and annihilating spiritual power sweeps through the alchemy chamber. The gentle mask she wore for years cracks apart, piece by piece.
"You want to use me as a furnace cauldron?" She crushes the elder's life-bound treasure, flames at her fingertips scorching his soul. "Then let's see if my fire agrees."
From then on, Shen Jingtang becomes a ruthless, unhinged cultivator:
- She snatches her adopted brother's cultivation resources, turning him from a genius into a cripple.
- She exposes the Shen clan's secret of stealing outsiders' spiritual roots, making a century-old family the laughingstock of the cultivation world.
- She storms the family secret realm and turns spiritual energy into a raging flood. Even if they all die together, she will drag every person who tormented her into hell.
Everyone says she is cruel and heartless, but who saw her clutching half a dry bun on a freezing night, longing for even a little affection?
Now that her spiritual root has awakened and her rebellious nature has driven her to madness, she will slaughter her way through hypocritical cultivation families and shatter unjust rules.
"From this day forward, I, Shen Qingtang, decide my own fate. Anyone who stands in my way will have their soul burned away and their bones ground to dust!"
