There is a divide between immortals and mortals! Cultivators can absorb spiritual energy and cultivate divine powers capable of reaching the heavens and probing the earth, ascending step by step toward immortality. That is what sets them apart from ordinary people.
Yet those just beginning Qi Refining have power as thin as a thread, and their energy is too meager to sustain them. A highly skilled martial artist among ordinary people can behead a cultivator in the middle of a spell with a single stroke.
Cultivators use their spiritual roots to connect with heaven and earth, absorbing energy day and night to refine their qi and enter the Dao. But spiritual roots differ in quality. Five-Element attributes, wind, thunder, ice, and rosy clouds, Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow grades: each person's lot is predetermined. Ordinary cultivators have only two or three spiritual roots, and their quality rarely rises above the Black or Yellow grade. They struggle to contend with those blessed with extraordinary gifts and may even be slain by opponents at a lower level of cultivation.
Cultivator Jiang Fan was one of the countless unremarkable mortals in this world. Though he possessed spiritual roots and embarked on the path of cultivation, he endured a life of hardship before finally attaining the fruit of immortality.
