The Dao Returns, Breaking the Shackles of Heaven and Earth

With a single spiritual root and an ordinary mortal body, Jiang Yanchen is considered a useless nobody in a world where spiritual roots decide everything. After his clan is wiped out, he encounters an ancient Taoist lineage and sets foot on the path to immortality once more, guided by the principle, “Comprehend the Dao, not its techniques.” At the Rising Stars Tournament, he sweeps aside geniuses with three spiritual roots. When evil cultivators surround him, he turns their wickedness into fertile ground with a gentle touch. While battle physiques reign supreme, he defeats every prodigy by yielding to overcome force. When the entire cultivation world mocks him for breaking the rules, he simply raises his rusty woodcutter’s hatchet. “If the decree of fate that judges all by spiritual roots is wrong, then today I’ll set it right.” He uses the natural Dao to unravel all techniques and takes on the heavens with a single spiritual root.