This is the Age of Declining Dharma, a time when the immortal path has withered and its legacies have been severed. Spiritual energy is scarce, cultivation arts are incomplete, and the cultivation world is mired in cutthroat competition and quick fixes. The true meaning of the Great Dao has long since been forgotten beneath the dust.
Lin Fan, a herb gatherer from a remote border town, is tested and found to possess the once-in-ten-thousand-years “rotten wood mixed spirit root.” The immortal sects refuse to take him, everyone mocks him, and his future looks bleak.
Then an accidental headbutt jolts an ancient treasure buried deep underground awake: the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Pavilion. It offers no divine manuals for him to use, only a vast but fragmented trove of ancient knowledge: the seemingly plausible yet dubious Basic Qi Guiding Art, the Materia Medica of a Hundred Herbs with its unfamiliar medicinal properties, the Strange Effects of the Fragmentary Formation Catalog, and countless “fallacies” and “dregs” that clash with the modern cultivation system.
The immortal path is severed? Then I’ll forge a new one!
