Chronicles of the Mystic Continent

On the Xuanzhou Continent, cultivation is supreme. The five great sects of the Central Region monopolize over seventy percent of the top-grade spiritual veins, making it nearly impossible for poor cultivators to enter the core circles. In the border town of Qingyang City, the orphan Su Chen, still struggling at sixteen to make ends meet by gathering herbs for food, accidentally falls off a cliff. His blood activates the ancient Xuanhuang jade left by his parents, allowing him to step onto the path of cultivation with a publicly acknowledged "waste spiritual root." Starting as an odd-job disciple in the outer sect of the third-rate Lingxi Sect, Su Chen rises against all odds: winning the outer sect competition, making a name for himself in the Eastern Region Hundred Sects League, building a supreme dao foundation in a secret realm, condensing a nine-turn golden core, breaking the core to form a nascent soul, slaying demon generals on the battlefield, uncovering the truth of the immortals' fall in the Northern Region, forming the Xuanzhou Alliance to resist sect hegemony, and ultimately quelling the catastrophe of heavenly demons, before transcending the ninety-nine lightning tribulations and ascending to the immortal realm. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Chronicles of the Mystic Continent — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠