The Eternal Dao Stele

In the cultivation world of Jiuzhou, one’s spiritual root determines one’s fate. Lin Chen has a useless fire-and-wood spiritual root. Three years after joining the Qingyun Sect, he is still a menial outer disciple at the very bottom. The steward skims his monthly stipend, prodigies humiliate him at will, and even his last batch of spiritual herbs is stolen. On the brink of death, he stumbles into a forbidden area in the back mountains, where his blood stains a blank ancient stele. The stele awakens and transforms into the Eternal Dao Stele. The first layer can refine spiritual herbs, demonic beast cores, fragments of magical treasures, and jade slips of cultivation techniques into “Dao Essence.” The second layer can consume Dao Essence to derive cultivation techniques, alchemical recipes, formations, and divine abilities, restoring what is incomplete and optimizing their paths. The third layer can inscribe Dao Essence as Dao Marks, permanently strengthening his physique, soul, sword heart, and spiritual eyes. From then on, his useless spiritual root is purified into a Chaos Dao Foundation, and the low-grade Qi Guiding Art is derived into an unparalleled immortal scripture. From the outer sect tournament to the inner sect’s power struggles, from imperial rivalries to the emergence of the Demon Abyss, Lin Chen sweeps all before him. Until he discovers that the stele is the key the ancient Immortal Emperor used to suppress the heavens, and that the mystery of his missing parents also leads deep into the stele. With mortal bones, I forge an immortal stele; with a mortal body, I suppress the heavens.