Urban Qi Veins: From Picking Up Trash to Commanding the Galaxy

In a shantytown on the brink of demolition, young Lin Ye struggles to survive. One day, beside a garbage heap, he unexpectedly awakens a sense for qi. That faint trickle of warmth at his fingertips shatters his belief in the ordinary and reveals a secret hidden beneath the city for a thousand years: qi flows through the concrete jungle, connected to the earth’s spiritual veins, and the half-book of Qi Sensing Art left behind by his grandfather is the key to protecting it all.

Forced into the Zhao Group’s plunder of “artificial spiritual qi,” Lin Ye joins forces with Su Qingyue, a descendant of the guardians of the veins, to repair seven major nodes. Amid the collision of everyday city life and supernatural power, he grows step by step: purifying polluted qi with his Purging Flame, tempering his cultivation with the city’s mixed qi, and, through his struggle against extraterrestrial civilizations, understanding the true nature of the spiritual veins. They are not some lofty power, but a pulse that coexists with humanity, hidden in the calls of market vendors, the laughter of children in the park, and the warmth of lights shining in countless homes.

From protecting a locust tree on an old alley to forming an interregional alliance of vein guardians; from a scavenger chased by street thugs to a guardian steering an ark of spiritual veins toward the stars, Lin Ye’s journey is the evolution of an entire civilization. When primordial spiritual veins on a cosmic scale sweep in, and different civilizations battle for survival, he will prove that the strongest spiritual veins have never lain in the depths of space. They are in the hearts of everyone willing to stop and protect their home.

This is a story about growing up, and a hymn to the spiritual veins of the human world. From a boy who scavenges through trash to a guardian who commands the stars, every step he takes follows the city’s heartbeat and connects to the universe’s breath.