In an age of spiritual qi revival, demon beasts run rampant, and the abilities granted by heaven are the key to humanity’s survival.
Jiang Sheng, a young man from Jiangcheng, was raised by his grandfather, who made a living collecting trash. He grew up facing constant discrimination. When his abilities were tested at the Tianshu Institute, his talent was rated “junk,” but he unexpectedly awakened a mysterious vertical eye that could steal other people’s spiritual qi and talents.
To scrape together the testing fee, Jiang Sheng worked and saved money, but his class monitor, Zhao Ninglei, humiliated him at every turn. After he entered the Tianshu Institute, his mentor considered him a “burden” and planned to expel him after half a semester.
But thanks to the astonishing power of his vertical eye, Jiang Sheng secretly learned Zhao Ninglei’s hurricane technique and copied his senior’s close-combat skills, rapidly increasing his strength.
During a military training exercise, he teamed up with Moyang, an eccentric cultivator, and managed to prevail against the odds while surrounded by upperclassmen. During a mission to hunt demon beasts, he risked his life fighting a Three Talents Realm tiger demon to save his classmates, only to be unexpectedly taken into another dimension by a fried-rice vendor.
Inside that dimension, Jiang Sheng endured three years of life-and-death trials, battling demon beasts and tempering his body. He obtained a dragonbone halberd and half-dragon blood, broke through to the Two Principles Realm, and even tamed “Boss Ha,” a husky he mistook for a wolf.
When he returns to the real world, the “junk ability user” of the past has been transformed. Facing doubts from the Tianshu Institute, threats from demon beasts, and hidden conspiracies, Jiang Sheng will use the countless abilities he has stolen to shed the “junk” label, protect his grandfather and close friends, and forge his own heaven-defying path through a chaotic world in the age of spiritual qi revival.
