With a Trash Spiritual Root, I Become a God by Decomposing Everything

(Mortal cultivation + breaking down all things + a comeback with a crippled spiritual root) Xu Jingnian died. He dropped dead at his workstation after working 996, and opened his eyes in the Azure Cloud Realm, in a rundown town, as a destitute youth whose parents were dead and who had been cast out by his clan. Other transmigrators get a System or a wise old mentor. He got only a seemingly useless “Break Down All Things” ability. It lets him take things apart and see how they’re made, but it can’t produce even a trace of spiritual power. In this small world, where spiritual energy is scarce and cultivation resources are monopolized by sects, having no spiritual root makes you useless. Xu Jingnian’s test results: a useless Five-Element spiritual root, with a cultivation speed one-tenth that of an ordinary person. But he discovers that “Break Down All Things” lets him see the paths taken by cultivation techniques, the patterns of spiritual energy, and the precise composition of medicinal pills. So while others spend ten years cultivating to establish their foundation, he uses the worst spiritual root and takes the wildest path: He breaks down and recombines incomplete cultivation techniques to create a method of his own. He takes apart and improves ordinary pills, doubling their potency. He breaks down and reconstructs demon beast bones to forge top-grade magic artifacts. While everyone thinks he’s just a lucky rogue cultivator, he has already, without anyone noticing, brushed against the truth of this world: The ancient tides of spiritual energy weren’t a natural disaster, but a man-made one. The Azure Cloud Realm isn’t a naturally occurring minor world, but a cage. And the lofty ancestors of the great sects are merely guarding its gates for someone else.