Forty years after the spiritual tide arrived, cultivation has become a business.
The sect conglomerates monopolize spiritual veins and patents, claiming, "Without a spiritual root, you don't deserve to cultivate immortality." Chen Yan is a low-level surveyor, born without a spiritual root and branded a "defective spirit body." Day after day, he measures the poor veins no one wants in the mine tunnels of the wasteland.
Until, deep in the West Fork mine, he digs up a fragment of an experimental manuscript from the previous civilization. It turns out spiritual roots are nothing more than resonance cavities. If you don't have one, just connect an external one.
He connects himself to the particle field. But his father's "accidental collapse" beneath the mine, and the truth behind it, begin to surface along the same vein...
