In a corner of Qingming Mountain’s herb garden, Chu Chen had spent eight whole years clutching a rust-covered hoe and listening to people mock him as a “good-for-nothing disciple with no spiritual roots.” He thought he’d spend his whole life among rotting leaves and fertilizer, until he was clearing out an abandoned pill chamber and a fragment of a bronze plaque cut his fingertip. The fragment, inscribed with the characters “Zhenyuan,” turned into a warm current that flowed into his palm, awakening an ancient inheritance: by using his own blood essence as a catalyst, he could hasten the growth of spiritual treasures and cultivate “Origin Spirit Seeds” containing fragments of the laws.
At that time, the demons from beyond the realms broke free from their seal. Black winds swept across the gates of Zhenyuan Sect, leaving its disciples strewn dead across the ground. Chu Chen squeezed out a drop of blood essence and planted it in a withered Qi-Gathering Mushroom seed. In an instant, the mushroom burst into radiant bloom. Not only did it help him break through the Qi Refining bottleneck, it also produced a “Flame-Control Lotus.” With its red lotus fire, he burned the demonic soldiers and carved out a path to survival amid the threat of his sect’s annihilation.
From then on, carrying a fragment of the Zhenyuan Token, he embarked on a path to prove the Dao through cultivation: in Blackwind Valley, overrun with demonic beasts, he planted Beast-Repelling Vines to ensnare a thousand wolves, their poisonous tips protecting him as he made it through a deadly trial; beside the river of time in an ancient secret realm, he cultivated Timegrass to reverse an instant and uncover the past-life ties between himself and Zhenyuanzi; among the broken walls and ruins of a forbidden zone in the Immortal Realm, he planted a Heaven-Piercing Cypress to build a bridge between immortals and humans, allowing cultivators from both realms to fight the demons together.
His herb garden expanded from Qingming Mountain to the marshes of the Southern Region, then to the sacrificial altar sealing Immortalfall Valley. He even carved out spiritual fields in the rifts between the myriad heavens. When the Demonic Lord broke through the seal with the power to destroy the world, and countless realms teetered on the brink of collapse, Chu Chen stood atop the World Tree he had cultivated with his own hands and raised the complete Zhenyuan Token. With the power of ten thousand laws, he linked heaven and earth. Only then did the world realize that the “good-for-nothing disciple” they had once mocked had long since become a master who wielded spiritual seeds
