The Good-for-Nothing's Path to Godhood

Name: The Good-for-Nothing's Path to Godhood
Author: Zhang Yier2zye

废柴成神记

by Zhang Yier2zye (张一二zye)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 177k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 2mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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In his previous life, Zhang Tianci was a good-for-nothing who couldn't even bring himself to finish confessing his feelings face to face. After being hit by a car and killed, he transmigrated into a cultivation world as the useless young heir of a sect: born with a leaking spirit body, he couldn't form a core even after a century of cultivation, and survived only because his father doted on him.

On the very first day after transmigrating, his sect was destroyed. Before his eyes, his father was swallowed by a flash of white light. With his dying breath, he pressed a sect leader's ring into Zhang Tianci's hand. “Stay alive.”

Wounded and trapped in a useless body, he crawled out through a secret passage and stumbled into the desert. Just as he was about to die on the sheltered side of a dune, a foul-mouthed young woman who panned for gold dug him out of the sand.

“Lucky you,” she said.

Later, he met a slovenly Sword God who had passed out in an oasis, a Sword Immortal who had seen through worldly concerns and lived in seclusion among fields of flowers, and a Martial Immortal who had built a city to house his hatred. Three retired legends, once powerful enough to shake the world, honed a good-for-nothing boy into a sword.

But what truly turned him from a “good-for-nothing” into a “sect leader” wasn't a cultivation technique or a stroke of fortune. It was the sight of that gold-panning girl crouched by the stove, her face reddened by smoke, and the bowl of hot congee she casually handed him as she said, “As long as you're alive, there's always something to look forward to.”

From the ruins of a sect wiped out to a mountain gate where cooking smoke rose once more, he began his journey with hatred and reached the far side of it.

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