Negative Spirit

Li Mu lives in a shantytown of cultivators in Qingmu City. His family is poor. His father works in an abandoned spiritual mine to pay for his registration fee for the Immortal Cultivation Academy, but he becomes seriously ill due to evil spirits. Carrying the "negative spiritual stone" left by his father that had never responded and the only remaining spiritual coins at home, he went to Qinglan Cultivation Academy. Faced with the high tuition and fees, he had no choice but to borrow a high-interest "Lingshi Loan" to enroll in school. In the academy, Li Mu witnessed the cruel involution of cultivation: classmates relied on expensive jade talismans, auxiliary elixirs, and first-class training rooms to make rapid progress. Some people took the "Bao Yuan Dan" with overdraft potential in order to achieve a breakthrough, which caused their spiritual roots to become useless. There were even rumors of strange magic skills. Li Mu practiced frugally and diligently, but made little progress and was ridiculed repeatedly. In desperation, he even wanted to commit suicide to practice the "Supreme Dharma". At the critical moment, the negative spirit stone in his arms began to throb weakly for the first time. On the day of the Immortal Examination, Li Mu poured his magic power into the examination of the jade tablet, but there was no response, and he was despised by everyone. At this time, the negative spirit stone suddenly trembled violently, releasing an ancient and hungry breath. There was a hum from the ground of Qinglan Academy, the formation overload lit up, and a huge distorted shadow appeared in the sky. Broken images flooded into Li Mu's mind: When countless monks practice and achieve breakthroughs, their bodies and auras will be "picked" by invisible forces. He finally learned the truth - the spiritual energy that the monks worked hard to cultivate was not Taoist foundation, but a sacrifice to the mastermind behind the scenes.