A Guide to Cultivation and Ascension

With barely enough aptitude to qualify as a cultivator and possessing almost nothing, he is a bottom-tier practitioner who can only hang up his single low-grade spirit stone and gaze at it while meditating. His path in life is painfully visible, and his journey of cultivation is destined to hit a dead end. He was meant to be as insignificant as a speck of dust, living a fleeting existence as brief and unnoticed as wild grass. Yet, a single act of kindness and two brushes with death grant him the faintest chance to struggle against his fate. Through wind and sand, his youth flows along the edge of a blade. When storms of crisis rise, his sword becomes stained with the crimson glow of twilight. This is not the typical cultivation guide belonging to some favored genius; rather, it is the story of an ordinary, mundane soul gazing upward, daring to reach for ascension.