Lin Chen was once a disciple of the Qingyun Sect, but its leader, Xuanjizi, secretly extracted his innate spirit root, the Ten Thousand Spirits Returning to One, and grafted it onto the sect's genius disciple, Qin Haoran. Framed as having a useless, impure spirit root, Lin Chen was expelled from the sect and opened a scrap recycling shop on the outskirts of town. While dismantling an old rice cooker, he awakened the ancient sword spirit Mo Chen and gained the talent to dismantle all things and return them to their origin. From discarded magical artifacts and old objects, he could extract spirit root fragments, Dao laws, and forces of karma, using them to repair his own spirit root.
The scrap shop was actually the surviving ruins of an ancient trading ground, and cultivators kept bringing in "scrap" tainted by karma. As Lin Chen dismantled objects to restore his cultivation, he gradually uncovered a conspiracy: Xuanjizi had built an underground palace and was brazenly plundering the spirit roots of disciples from various sects in an attempt to refine a Divine Transformation Dao Fruit.
He formed bonds with Su Li, who bore a secret of her bloodline, as well as Qin Haoran and Zhao Yan, both of whom had been used. He also gained the help of Kunlun Heming. With a set of weighing weights and the legacy left by his mother, Lin Chen entered the perilous underground palace, faced the scheming Xuanjizi, and destroyed the evil formation that had been plundering spirit roots. In the end, his spirit root was restored in full, and he protected the trading ground. The scrap shop became a special place for karmic trade in the cultivation world, while a far greater hidden threat had only just begun to show itself.
