Dust Opens the Heavenly Path

Spiritual energy was fading, and the road to heaven lay sealed in dust.

The iron law of this world had long been set: only those born with spiritual roots could embark on the path to immortality. Those without them were condemned to spend their lives as lowly servants.

Shen Li was born without spiritual roots and was sent to a sect as a child. Day after day, he swept floors and tended the furnace, enduring endless abuse. Orthodox spiritual cultivation techniques were as useless as wastepaper to him, and everyone believed he would never be able to cultivate.

But no one knew that the dust and dirt the entire cultivation world dismissed as filth concealed a great path deliberately erased by ancient cultivators and severed for a thousand years: the Dust Path.