Shen Chuan, a food delivery rider on Blue Star, learns what “the divide between immortals and mortals” means on the very first day after transmigrating.
The Demonic Sect massacres a village. He risks his life to save two children, only for the righteous immortal sects to arrive late, take away the child with a spiritual root, and toss him a low-grade spirit stone as charity. They even throw in a “ten-year death sentence”: demonic malice has lodged in his shoulder, and without a spiritual root, he will die within ten years.
No System, no golden finger, and no matter how loudly he cries for help, no one comes to give him a boost.
Then, while searching a corpse, he finds a fragmentary book with missing pages
"Secret Records of Spirit Theft".
Use blood as a catalyst to seize another person’s spiritual root and graft it onto yourself. Defy Heaven, walk the demonic path, and suffer inevitable backlash.
But he is an ant without a spiritual root. No one cares how an ant survives.
At the Ling Cloud Sect’s spirit-testing platform, a thousand people vie for a chance at immortality. Lin Hao, born with a Heavenly Spiritual Root, is fawned over by all. Radiating saintly energy, he regards female cultivators as cultivation furnaces and mortals as weeds. Those with weak or mixed spiritual roots are like stray dogs, kneeling and begging for the slightest chance at immortality.
With a formation carved into his chest and blood streaming down it, Shen Chuan steals his first spiritual root.
From then on, the outer sect gains a silent menial disciple. No one knows that blood-red patterns spread beneath his clothes. No one knows that every step is a fight against rejection, backlash, and his ten-year deadline.
He only wants to live.
Even if he has to climb from the slaughterhouse to the ninth heaven over the bones of Heaven’s chosen one.
