Lu Chen is a sixteen-year-old scion of a declining branch family in the Eastern Wilderness. He is found to have a three-root spiritual aptitude, placing him at the very bottom of the cultivation world.
After disaster strikes his family, he takes refuge in the Green Bamboo Sect and becomes a menial disciple assigned to clean the Scripture Pavilion. He thinks he can only scrape by at the very bottom for the rest of his life, until he finds a dusty gray bead among a pile of junk while clearing away clutter.
The bead can condense spiritual liquid and devour all things, and it also conceals a shocking secret: it is one of nine fragments of the ancient supreme treasure, the Chaos Pearl. Scattered across the world, each fragment contains an incredible power.
So what if his aptitude is mediocre?
He has all the determination he needs to fight for his life.
Tempering his body with spiritual liquid, accelerating time, folding space, deducing causality... As he gathers the fragments one by one, the bead's power gradually awakens, and Lu Chen rises step by step from menial disciple to outer sect, inner sect, and true disciple. He travels from the Eastern Wilderness to the Central Province, and advances from Qi Refining to ascension.
But the fragments are scattered across the Five Realms, and each is guarded by a powerful protector.
Ice dragons of the Northern Plains, demon cultivators of the Southern Sea, a demonic overlord of the Western Desert, the Heavenly Emperor's Mausoleum in the Central Province, the ancient Demonic Abyss...
Even more terrifying, the Blood Moon Tower, the most ruthless demonic cultivation force in the Eastern Wilderness, has set its sights on the fragments in his possession.
This is a road where death awaits at every turn.
But Lu Chen knows...
The path of cultivation has never belonged to geniuses alone. Even the mediocre get their chance to defy fate.
This book is good, but why doesn't anyone read it?