"Five elements waste spiritual roots, no immortal fate. Next."
Lin Du knelt on the bluestone slab at the outer door of Qingyun Sect. He was born deaf in his left ear, and could only hear this sentence in his right ear. He clenched his fists and dug his nails into his palms. It's not anger, it's fear - what kind of look will Shopkeeper Zhao of Huichun Hall, who sells counterfeit medicines, look at him?
The moment he stood up and prepared to roll down the mountain gate, a sentence exploded in his mind:
"Pledgeable asset detected: residual hearing in left ear. Loan?"
The world of cultivating immortals adheres to the principle of "spiritual roots determine destiny", and those without spiritual roots will always be mortal. But the way of heaven operates a set of hidden laws of cause and effect—all things can be loaned, and all things must be repaid.
Lin Du used his broken body as collateral to borrow money for immortality step by step as an apprentice in a medicine shop: he loaned his left eye's vision in exchange for proficiency in the art of fire bombs, loaned out his three years of life in exchange for an opportunity to build a foundation, loaned out his pain sensation in exchange for insights into medicine prescriptions, and loaned out his Tao Foundation fragments in exchange for cross-realm combat power. Every time you become stronger, your time window is shortened; every transaction has a real price.
This is a story about a person who is most afraid of death and trades his life.
From "loaning oneself" to "loaning for others", from "karma broker" to "karma bank", Lin Du eventually became the karma bank itself in the world of immortality - all monks' breakthroughs must be approved by him, fundamentally subverting the resource allocation logic of the world of immortality.
The end is not to ascend, but to stay.
His choice: Make sure that the next boy with useless spiritual roots does not need to spend three years of his life in exchange for an opportunity to build a foundation.
