This Five-Element Spiritual Root Is Ridiculously Overpowered

[No romance] [Steady power progression] [Strong female lead] [Traditional cultivation] [Gets better as you read] [Please read and add to your collection]

An ancient porcelain lamp, guiding souls across the divide.

Lin Yunshu never imagined that after going from an abandoned infant in an orphanage to financial freedom, she would die saving someone and be carried into the mortal world of a cultivation realm, born anew in the womb, protected by the ancient lamp she wore around her neck.

After ten years of lonely waiting, she finally got the chance to join an immortal sect, only to be found to have the lowest-grade five-element spiritual roots. Lin Yunshu merely smiled faintly. With a heart as firm as stone, why fear starting over?

Determined to outwork the entire cultivation world, she had barely embarked on her path to a comeback when she discovered that the ancient lamp that had brought her here was the ancient immortal artifact, the Azure Phoenix Spirit Tide Lamp.

From then on, she used the lamp as her medium and pushed her cultivation to the limit. Though the lamp’s spirit was gravely damaged, its insight remained clear. Its guidance was like a spark, and she fed it with tireless cultivation until it blazed into a flame reaching the heavens. She honed every art, from alchemy and artifact-making to formations and talismans.

As spiritual energy flowed into the lamp and returned to her as a wondrous warm current, she tempered herself day and night. At last, her lowest-grade five-element spiritual roots mutated, transforming her from the inside out and quietly giving her a foundation superior to that of so-called geniuses.

She had wanted to cultivate discreetly, keep a low profile, and live long. Yet the ties around her grew ever more astonishing: her frail younger brother possessed a peerless Daoic physique and seemed to be a powerful being reincarnated; her closest friend had unparalleled talent in formations, and her origins revealed a shocking bloodline; even the spirit pet she had casually rescued was a descendant of a lost divine beast, entangled in the secrets of the demon race’s overlord...

Even more alarming, the warm current the lamp returned to her was the rarest Chaos Origin, which had quietly forged an unrivaled Dao foundation for her: building a Daoic physique from the Five Elements and taking in Chaos to shape the universe.

As every clue points to the grim truth that spiritual energy in this realm is waning and the path to immortality has been severed, watch Lin Yunshu shatter the void in this age of declining magic and reopen the road to heaven.