Good-for-Nothings Don't Deserve Investment: I Use a Hundred Ghosts for Face-Slapping

Lin Qiu was the Lin family's Yin-Seer, a child prodigy of a century, and had reached the ninth and final level of the Spirit-Seeing realm. Three years ago, merchant guilds fought for the chance to sign contracts with him. His clan prospered through him and revered him as their light.

Three years later, his cultivation is completely gone, and he has fallen back to the lowest rank, the Blindfolded. Those who once sought his help now force him to tear up their contracts. Those who rose through his support call him a useless waste.

His cousin Lin Heng steals the pearl left behind by his mother, while dark arts drain away three years of his cultivation. Zhao Tianjiao humiliates him in public. His father is forced to sign a one-year wager: if he loses, the whole clan will starve to death.

That night, the bronze coin among his mother's keepsakes awakens. The three pearls return to their places, and his cultivation floods back into him.

The coin speaks in a childish voice: