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His name is Shen Yubai, he is 34 years old and lives in Tangchen Yipin. He has three carefully managed relationships and is in charge of an investment company spanning futures, securities and entertainment. In the eyes of others, he is synonymous with perfection: an investment vision that is so precise and cold, a conversation that is so profound that it is despairing, and a face that never shows emotion. But no one knows that the heart of this "magic hero" is an island filled with desire for control. He built his own world with money and interests, thinking that he could always stand on the top of the waves and overlook all living beings. Until a fund of unknown origin confronts him head-on in the futures market, an old man returns with the secrets of his London years, and the three girlfriends begin to awaken and "rebel" at the same time. When the three mountains of capital, emotion, and morality collapsed at the same time, Shen Yubai realized that the most failed investment in his life was the valuation of people's hearts. This is an ukiyo-e about money, desire and self-salvation. After swallowing everything, can he find the long-lost thing called "sincerity"?

Zhang Qingyuan, an ordinary Taoist priest in charge of incense at the Tianshi Mansion in Longhu Mountain. When he was sorting out the Sutra Pavilion, he discovered a copy of "Jiu Yi Dao Lu", and accidentally cultivated his spiritual power. He accidentally activated the ancient teleportation array in the back mountain, and was thrown into a completely unfamiliar world - the world of cultivation. The air here has aura, the vegetation here will shine, and the people here can fly in the sky. But this place is also full of naked predatory practices: casual cultivators are fighting for a spiritual stone like wild dogs, the direct lineage and side branches within the sect are clearly distinct, the elixirs and magic weapons are all clearly marked with prices, and the four spiritual root monks who have no background are considered slow even in doing chores. Zhang Qingyuan is the four spiritual roots. The cultivation speed is one-tenth of that of a single spiritual root. He has no backer and no resources, and he cannot even afford a complete book of exercises. He relied on a travel journal to identify elixirs, learned runes by sorting out waste talismans, and used broken formation flags to create spirit-gathering formations. He took on the lowest collecting tasks in the market, picked up spiritual stones from corpses under the claws of monsters, and gambled on stones on the black market to cut out medium-grade spiritual stones-and also cut out a pile of waste stones. Being chased by geniuses, he used miasma and formations to fight back; rejected by the sect, he turned around and left to find another way out; targeted by the devil, he broke through the golden elixir while fleeing. There is no fairness in this world, only strength. He doesn't complain, doesn't take shortcuts, spends every spiritual stone on the edge, and spends every day in hard work. From Qi refining to foundation building, from foundation building to golden elixir, from golden elixir to Yuanying, and then to ascension to the spiritual world - it took him a hundred years to complete the path that geniuses took thirty years to complete. This is not a genius story. This is an ordinary person. In the world of cannibalism, one step

Lin Yuan, a young man from Qingniu Town, whose parents are both dead and possesses the worst Five Spiritual Root qualifications, joins the Qingshan Sect with his obsession with cultivating immortality. There is no heaven-defying system, no mysterious ring, only an equally humble girl, Su Wan, who depends on her for life and death. In order to protect this only warmth, Lin Yuan worked hard at the bottom of the sect - 50% of the spiritual grass was deducted, the cultivation resources were robbed by the inner sect disciples, and even the handymen and stewards could be manipulated at will. But he never accepted his fate. Relying on his deep understanding of the martial arts and his step-by-step planning, Lin Yuan made breakthroughs on the verge of life and death again and again. Alchemy has become the foundation of his life. From discovering ancient elixir prescriptions to sensing hidden mineral veins, from outsmarting treasures in secret realms to discreetly picking up leaks at auctions, he relies on knowledge to change his destiny. In the sect, the elders are fond of arousing jealousy, and the prodigies are slapped in the face when they make things difficult; in the secret realm, everyone is rushing to grab spiritual materials, but he quietly takes away the real treasure; when enemies come, he uses elixirs, cultivation, and connections to control them. From a handyman disciple to an outer sect, inner sect, and core disciple, from the human world to the spiritual world to participate in the struggle for hegemony among hundreds of clans, every step Lin Yuan took was difficult but solid. He doesn't rely on luck, he only relies on his brains; he doesn't rely on his background, he only relies on his strength. When the ancestor of the sect and the top genius who looked down on him at that time needed to rely on him to refine the elixir of life-sustaining elixir in the fairyland war, he truly let everyone understand that this "waste" with five spiritual roots had reached a height that they could never reach.