No spiritual roots and an ordinary physique means you're a good-for-nothing in the cultivation world? Li Goudan, a servant disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, refuses to accept that!
Li Goudan's real name is Li Xuanchen. An orphan from a mountain village, his only golden finger is half a body-tempering talisman that can only ease fatigue and heal minor wounds. With absolutely nothing going for him from the start, he has to rely on sheer hard work!
When outer-sect disciples mock him, saying, "Trying to cultivate with a scrap of paper is like a blind man lighting a lamp: a complete waste," he fires back, "Your spiritual roots are trash, yet you strut around like a big shot. Throw a stone into a latrine and you stir up public outrage. Keep it up, and I'll beat you so badly you won't know which way is north." When an elder sneers, "Cultivating with an ordinary physique is like trying to blow a fire with a rolling pin: you haven't got a clue," he turns around and quietly focuses on building himself up. By day, he hauls and chops wood to strengthen his body. At night, he sneaks into the abandoned pill room to scavenge leftover pills and steal cultivation manuals. What others dismiss as junk is a treasure in his hands. Protected by half a broken talisman, he endures countless hours of grueling cultivation and somehow trains himself into a body of bronze skin and iron bones, breaking the thousand-year-old rule that those with ordinary physiques cannot draw in spiritual energy!
From a lowly servant disciple living on sweet potatoes to the peak of the mortal realm, where he survives heavenly tribulation and ascends to immortality, he takes the cruelest beatings, follows the safest path of keeping his head down, and serves up the most satisfying comeuppances. During his tribulation, he summons a lightning strike to drive off an attacker, then officially makes his name as Li Xuanchen. Those who once insulted and bullied me can't even dream of reaching my level now!
He's never a bleeding heart or a reckless fool. He always repays a grudge and fiercely protects his own, making him the perfect cure for anyone with an inflated sense of superiority over their spiritual roots! Others cultivate through talent and family connections. He relies on sheer grit, an indomitable heart, and half a broken talisman, and takes his ordinary-physique comeback story to the limit, proving with his strength that an ordinary physique doesn't make you a good-for-nothing. As long as you're willing to fight to the bitter end, even without spiritual roots you can shatter the heavens and turn the cultivation world upside down!
Love this Sichuan flavor!