A hundred years after spiritual qi revival, humanity was locked in a desperate arms race on the brink of apocalypse, and rare treasures were worth a fortune.
Then Lu Chen opened the door to the dried-up well in his backyard and found a garbage dump piled high with scrap metal.
This was the Bodhi Patriarch's dojo, where the Supreme Lord Lao Jun dumped furnace ash and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven tossed peach pits!
From then on, Lu Chen embarked on a shameless path of wasteland development that completely outclassed the rest of the world:
He spread the furnace ash left over from the Supreme Lord Lao Jun's failed alchemy across his vegetable patch → ordinary street-corner cabbages mutated into ninth-grade purple mushrooms! Their medicinal potency surged by 1,000%!
He used discarded talisman paper from the Bodhi Patriarch's failed calligraphy to prop up a table leg → it unleashed a world-ending Five-Fingered Mountain! Its power increased ten thousandfold!
He tossed a bone the kitchen at Fangcun Mountain had thrown away into a hell dungeon → an S-rank Earth Dragon Martial King was so scared it wet itself and pledged allegiance on the spot!
The extraterrestrial meteorite iron that Blue Star's War Gods would bankrupt themselves to fight over was only good enough to serve as a doorstep at his place.
As martial grandmasters and major conglomerates, shaken to their core, begged to become his disciples,
Lu Chen stood in his backyard, where a waterfall of pure immortal energy flowed, and took a crisp bite of cabbage.
“You call that place outside a hell dungeon? Sorry, but my backyard is the finest immortal paradise in all the realms!”