I Entered the Immortal Sect with Discarded Pills

Four years ago, Lin Fan was the Qingyun Sect master's first personal disciple. Blessed with a complete innate spiritual root, he was said to be destined to form a Golden Core within twenty years.

Three years ago, his spiritual root withered for no reason, and his cultivation was completely lost. He fell from genius to the gutter, was demoted again and again, and was eventually expelled from the Qingyun Sect.

Adrift in the market district, he could only set up a stall beside a filthy ditch, selling discarded pill scraps from the sect. He endured the jeers of the surrounding cultivators, and for three months, he failed to sell even a single pill.

By chance, he discovered a ruined pill marked with silver lines. To his surprise, it awakened his dormant dantian.

As it turned out, his withered Deathly Spiritual Root feared no pill toxins and specialized in absorbing medicinal remnants. The discarded pills everyone else avoided were the cultivation resources meant for him alone.

While others sought supreme-grade spirit pills, he picked through discarded pill scraps. Where everyone else saw garbage, Lin Fan saw a mountain of immortality.

With a mouse for company and piles of ruined pills for resources, Lin Fan traveled through the back hills and refuse dumps of countless minor sects, devouring discarded pills and cultivating his Deathly Spiritual Root. Step by step, he washed away the humiliation of his past, uncovered the secret behind his spiritual root's withering, and defied fate to ascend to immortality.