Defying the Myriad Spirits

A man with a mixed spiritual root is mocked by all. His parents died of illness, his family is destitute, and he cannot even scrape together three hundred spirit stones. Yet Ye Chen dares to dream of the path of immortality. When he tests his spiritual root, a faint five-colored light flashes, confirming his root as mixed, with a cultivation speed only one-tenth of normal. The outer sect steward dismisses him. Suddenly, Lin Xiao, a genius disciple of the Qingyang City Lin family, appears and strikes Ye Chen with contempt, sending him flying. The blow cracks a seal within Ye Chen that has been dormant for sixteen years. The testing stele erupts with dazzling five-colored light and shatters into dust. Ye Chen's aura surges, breaking through from no cultivation to Qi Refining Layer 3, stunning everyone. Unknown to all, he harbors the remnant soul of an ancient emperor, which waits to seize his body when he reaches the Nascent Soul stage. Even more unknown, his parents' deaths, the Lin family's debts, and his mixed spiritual root are all part of a three-hundred-year conspiracy.