Asking the Immortals in a Ruined World

In the ancient Tai Chu Heavenly Realm, mighty beings slaughtered each other in civil war, leaving behind ruins and remnants across the heavens, where negative essences bred the desolate demonic tribulation force. A thousand years later, in Shiqiao Town of Pingchuan Prefecture, Chen Youyu sets up a stall by the Spirit Spring Well selling spirit fruits. Zhou Hu, the new manager of Fengnian Hall, demands the well contract; if not handed over in three days, the well will be filled. Old Sun goes to reason with him and is struck with a palm that leaves a dark, festering wound. Chen Youyu descends into the well and finds an ancient fragment; a warm current bursts within him—the Ruin Fire Dao Body awakens, and his Heart-Reflecting Pupil can see the wisp of desolate demonic aura on Zhou Hu. He doesn't want to stand out, but if the well is filled, his stall is doomed. So he sets a trap in a tavern with soft tendon powder, making Zhou Hu kneel and call him grandpa in public; in a narrow alley, he overturns a fruit basket, sending everyone into the drainage ditch. Zhou Hu brings the hall master Guo Tieshan and the Ember Daoist of the Ember Sect. Chen Youyu activates the residual patterns at the well bottom to repel the hall master, grabs a fruit basket and scatters confusion powder, pries out the fragment, and flees on a donkey cart. The ancient residual spirit in the fragment speaks up, mocking him for going the wrong way. Cursing, Chen Youyu turns around and heads for the Qingyan Sect, while behind him, the Ember Daoist sends a message to his superiors: "The Ruin Fire Ember has appeared in this world, on a fruit-selling lad." He only wants to earn spirit stones in peace, but the Ruin Fire Dao Body is the only key to sealing the catastrophe. Seven Lamps gather one after another, with sect fireworks, secret realm treasure hunting, and teammates tricking each other; the hidden line of the catastrophe is peeled back layer by layer. Sweet first, then blazing; marketplace logic crushes cultivation rules. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Asking the Immortals in a Ruined World — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠