Rootless Immortal Path

In the cultivation world, there is an iron law: **mortals cannot become immortals**. Spiritual roots are predetermined by heaven; those born without spiritual roots spend their entire lives as nothing more than ants in the cultivation world, without even the qualification to step through a sect's gate. This world has long been shaped by "spiritual root determinism" into a strict prison—major sects monopolize spiritual energy and cultivation methods, bloodline clans pass down their legacies for generations, while mortals are like weeds, cut down again and again, forever able only to gaze up at the clouds. The protagonist **Shen Qing**, an orphan from a border town, was judged to have "no spiritual root" when his spiritual root was tested at age fifteen, and was supposed to fall into mortal life, dying of old age in the streets. However, when he was on the brink of death during a bandit raid, he unexpectedly awakened the extremely rare **"Spirit-Devouring Body"**—while others cultivate by absorbing spiritual energy, he can devour the spiritual power within others' bodies, and even their spiritual roots themselves, converting them for his own use. He can steal spiritual roots and alter his aptitude, which means that the eternal chasm separating mortals and cultivators has been trampled beneath his feet alone. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Rootless Immortal Path — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠