The Humble Path to Immortality

In a world where spiritual roots determine status, sect prodigies are born with heavenly spiritual roots, monopolizing spiritual veins, techniques, and secret realms, while commoners and those with inferior roots are treated as dirt, denied even the right to cultivate. Lin Wei is a grain of dust in this mud. With no background, talent, or backing, he possesses only half a tattered manual discarded by a rogue cultivator and a humble path to immortality that no one believes in. From a menial worker in the Xuanjian Sect to a rogue cultivator in the Heifeng Market, from an unknown nobody in Nanzhou to the leader of the Humble Alliance in Jiuzhou, from an ant in the mortal world to the Dao Ancestor of the Three Realms, he walks through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, witnesses hell on earth, endures betrayal from allies, loses his most revered master, and protects those he holds dear. He has seen too many humble beings like himself, for whom survival is a luxury under the oppression of the powerful. So he stops his solitary ascent to the heavens, turns around, and carves a new path to immortality for all the dust and ants of the Three Realms. For eons, the immortal path has only opened to prodigies. From now on, even the humble can ascend the immortal platform.