People Ask the Immortals

There is an iron law in this world: spiritual energy comes from the struggle of all things. Someone died in a mine collapse. The steward passed by and checked in before leaving. No one pursued. Because the more intense the fight, the higher the quality of the spirit stone. The dead miners turned into stones in the mountain of waste stones. Each piece was a tomb containing a crushed life. Shen Ye is the lowest-ranking handyman in the mine. He is seventeen years old and has false spiritual roots. The standard answer in the world of immortality told him that pseudo-spiritual roots are useless. Until he saw something he shouldn't have seen in the Waste Spirit Stone Mountain. Others can only absorb spiritual energy from spiritual stones, but he can capture the memory of the birth of spiritual energy - the battlefield of fighting, the hunters helping each other, and the silent waiting. Every piece of waste spirit stone told him the same thing: spiritual energy not only comes from fighting, cooperation can also produce spiritual energy. However, cooperative cultivation has a fatal flaw: the spiritual energy produced by cooperation is moist and long-lasting, but it cannot widen the gap in cultivation. Thousands of years later, everyone will be in a similar state. If you can't tell the difference between high and low, you can't tell who should get more. The reason why fighting produces spiritual energy is an iron rule, not because cooperation is ineffective, but because cooperation is too fair. Those who are fair enough to stand high will lose the qualification to stand higher. From the waste stone mountain in the mine to the showdown at the highest level of the world of immortality, Shen Ye will face six paths - to rule the world, escape into the world of mortals, forget oneself and become an idiot, never stop reinventing himself, and take the wrong path. And he grew out of the mud. Starting from tempering a shovel with a curled blade, to understanding the way of the combined efforts of all living beings - standing at the end of the road and looking back, he understood that the question was never where the immortals were, but how people should live.