Name: Shen Yanchen
Age: 16 (at the beginning)
Initial cultivation: Qi Guidance Realm, third layer (at the peak of Full Breath, stuck at the Foundation Establishment bottleneck for three years)
Identity: An outer disciple of the Qingxuan Sect in the Eastern Region, and the last survivor of a fallen cultivation family
Constitution: [Remnant Spirit Severed Meridians Physique] (a false trash physique, concealing a supreme divine physique)
- Outward traits: Narrow meridians, extremely weak spiritual energy retention, immense difficulty breaking through. The sect has deemed him mediocre and worthless.
- True nature: An ancient Spirit-Devouring Dao Foundation is sealed within him. He absorbs only impure baleful energy, karmic burdens, discarded spiritual energy, and fragmented laws. The spiritual energy of pure spirit stones actually suppresses his cultivation.
- The central contrast: While the world strives for pure spiritual roots and seeks the orthodox Great Dao, the protagonist follows a reverse path of devouring spirits. The more perilous, polluted, and stained with killing karma a place is, the faster he cultivates.
