The Five Elements Seek the Path to Immortality

[Mortal Cultivation + No System + Five-Element Spiritual Roots + Growing Through Talisman Crafting + Cautious Survival]

“Five-element spiritual roots. Cultivation is arduous, and you have no hope of reaching Foundation Establishment in this lifetime.”

On his first day in the sect, Xu Shuo found no path to immortality. Instead, he received a servant’s debt contract for twelve low-grade spirit stones and three mu of inferior spiritual fields that were nearly dead.

No System, no rare treasures, and no powerful expert to bail him out. Spirit rice cost money, treating injuries cost money, and even a life-saving talisman cost money.

All he could do was learn talisman-making with discarded paper and flawed ink. Amid insect plagues, spiritual tides, sect assignments, and one resource struggle after another, he slowly earned the right to keep cultivating.

His five-element spiritual roots made him slower than everyone else, but they also forced him to see the interactions, imbalances, and openings between the five kinds of spiritual energy that others so often overlooked.

Should he use a talisman? Should he spend a spirit stone? If he makes the wrong call, who will pay the price?

On this long road to immortality, fate itself has no answers for him.

The world despises the clashing of the five elements.

But with the worst spiritual roots imaginable, Xu Shuo will go all the way to the end and find out:

If the five elements can overcome one another, why can’t they give rise to one another?