Building a Foundation Means Certain Death? I Cultivate Qi to Billions of Layers and Crush Immortals and Demons

Lu Chen has no spiritual root. Strangely enough, he can cultivate, but he can't establish his foundation.

A beautiful immortal noticed that Lu Chen had no spiritual root but could still cultivate, and made an exception to take him as her disciple.

Lu Chen has a pair of Eyes of Analysis. He saw how extraordinary this immortal was, with a high chance of ascending. He decided he would cling to his beautiful master's coattails from now on.

But after the immortal brought Lu Chen back to her sect, he was horrified to discover that a worm was coiled around the spiritual root in the dantian of every Foundation Establishment cultivator. When a cultivator broke through from Foundation Establishment to the Golden Core stage, the worm turned into a snail...

Then he discovered that cultivators with certain special physiques, as well as those with a System, had no worms or snails or anything like them in their dantians. His master was one of those who had none.

Even more terrifyingly, Lu Chen discovered that after cultivators established their foundations, the souls of those with worms around their spiritual roots were no longer the same. Qi Refining cultivators had whole, warm clusters of soul-light, but once they established their foundations, they became a wisp of ghostly insect light.

With his Eyes of Analysis, Lu Chen could even see the source of the Systems in the sea of consciousness of cultivators who had one (the kind that says, "Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've bound a System and received a starter gift pack").

He discovered that their world was actually being farmed. From Foundation Establishment to Tribulation Crossing, it was all part of a round of selecting sacrificial prey.

The synopsis can't do it justice, so please read the story to see how Lu Chen breaks out of this trap.