The Eye of the Spiritual Vein

Chu Ge transmigrated into the body of a jade-carving apprentice, and it was hell mode from the start: his master was dead, the shop was in ruins, a local bully was kicking down the door to collect a debt, and the only "scrap" left behind was dismissed as garbage by everyone.

But no one knew that a beating heart was hidden inside that scrap.

The Spirit Energy Scanning System activated, revealing the first of nine spirit patterns. Other people relied on their eyes to gamble on stone; he relied on spirit energy perception. When others cut open a dud and jumped off buildings, he swallowed the spirit energy cores inside the raw stones one by one, unlocking perception, resonance, inscription, concealment, grafting, lightning patterns... Once all nine patterns were gathered, the spirit vein gate could be opened.

But trouble came faster than opportunity. Fang Henian, an external affairs steward of the Spirit Energy Merchants Guild, had been chasing him for twenty years, from his master's generation to his own. What he wanted wasn't scrap, but a key. From the Shen family residence to the southern market and the western node passage, Chu Ge was hunted at every turn and had to outwit his pursuers. He had debts of gratitude to repay, his master's cause of death to investigate, and three main fragments to gather before the guild could get them.

Everyone said it was scrap. Chu Ge alone knew there was a heartbeat inside.

Stones don't lie. People do.