You’re Supposed to Cultivate Immortality, So Why Are You Taking the Spirit Vein Home?

After transmigrating to the world of cultivation, Su Chen becomes the lowest-ranking outer sect disciple of Qingfeng Sect. His aptitude is terrible, he has no backing, and a cruel steward deliberately makes things difficult for him, assigning him Cave Abode No. 79 in the Ding district, the sect’s worst: an abandoned animal pen with no spiritual energy. On top of being mocked by his fellow disciples, he faces a desperate situation: if he doesn’t break through within three months, he’ll be sent off to do hard labor. Just when he thinks all he can do is scrape by for the rest of his life, his blood unexpectedly activates the [Paradise Cave Abode Equipment Slot] in his mind! [Host detected to have a personal cave abode. Equipment slot activated!] [Available real estate resources to equip: spirit soil, spring sources, formation foundations, mineral veins, secret-realm cores, dragon lair foundations...] From then on, Su Chen’s cultivation journey takes a completely different turn. Other cultivators fight monsters, gain levels, and snatch pills. Su Chen roams the world “digging up land” and building infrastructure. Someone gives him a hard time by sending him to dig up a barren field? He turns around and makes off with the hidden remnant of an Underworld Spring vein! Others try to ambush him by detonating a formation? He turns their attack against them, kills his enemies, and gets a free haul of the remains of an ancient sword formation buried a hundred zhang underground! An acre of spirit farmland, a spirit spring, a spirit vein, a sword formation... Countless ages later, when the gods and Buddhas of the myriad heavens are fighting to the death over the shattered core of the world, they finally reach Su Chen’s cave abode. When they see the supreme great world within, a realm of its own that has fused the Spring of Reincarnation, the Taixu Star Formation, and the laws of Heaven, every mighty being falls to their knees. Standing on his doorstep, Su Chen sighs: “To begin with, I really just wanted to install a security door on my shabby cave...”