[Mortal Cultivator] [Two Worlds in the Mirror] In the mortal world, the Heavenly Dao has long since inscribed the fates of all living beings.
Luo Chen of the Great Yan Kingdom was orphaned and alone from childhood. His relatives seized his family's estate, and he endured the world's cold indifference.
At the Spirit-Testing Ceremony, he was found to possess the Five-Element Mixed Spirit Root, despised by all. The Heavenly Dao had judged him a cultivation waste, forever barred from the path to immortality.
Fortunately, the ancestral Guixu Ancient Mirror he carried held a complete, vast world of stars. Its rules were independent, beyond the Heavenly Dao's sight.
The mirror's power concealed the workings of fate, twisting the signs of his defective roots into a pair of mutually reinforcing Spirit Roots, a phenomenon rarely seen in the world.
In public, peak masters and elders vied to take him as a personal disciple. The whole sect's young cultivators admired and fawned over him, making him a Daoist prodigy in the spotlight.
In private, only Luo Chen knew that one wrong step would mean the utter destruction of his soul.
Spiritual energy was scarce in the outside world, and cultivation was restricted at every turn. Within the mirror, the starry expanse was boundless, with inexhaustible giant beasts, ancient ruins, and resources of primordial origin.
He traveled between the two worlds, cleansing his mortal roots with the essence of the stars and cultivating Five-Element Spirit-Energy Fruits to break the Heavenly Dao's shackles.
Everyone else bowed to fate. I alone wield the Guixu Mirror, using a mortal's body to defy the Heavenly Dao through the ages!
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