The Immortal Path from Dust: Green Bamboo

Lin Yan, a mortal-born boy from Qingzhu Mountain, was declared to have “no spiritual root” when his roots were tested at fifteen, shattering his dream of cultivating immortality. Orphaned young, he scrapes by tending a small medicinal garden, until he accidentally touches the green bamboo medicine core inside an old bamboo stalk. It can accelerate the growth of spirit herbs and purify spiritual energy, while also concealing his true innate medicine spirit root. A commotion over high-priced medicinal herbs soon erupts. The mutant spirit herbs that cultivators are scrambling to buy were all grown by him on a whim. He can even grasp the medicinal properties of a sword-wielding cultivator's formula at a glance. Everyone laughs that a mortal-born boy has no path to immortality, but with the medicine core, he quietly builds his strength. The pills he refines stun the marketplace, and he shatters the shackles of heaven's law. Beneath Qingzhu Mountain, a mortal-born boy conceals his edge; above his humble roots, his path to immortality is a cheat code!