Mortal Cultivation: Reclaiming the Guixu Fragments from the Start

Born with subpar Five-Elements mixed spiritual roots and stuck at the very first layer of Qi refinement, Lin Nian begins his journey at the absolute rock bottom of the Qingyun Sect as a humble herb garden laborer. His prospects are bleak until a casual strike of his hoe unearths a rusty, battered iron shovel, awakening the ancient divine artifact known as "Guixu." With the artifact's unique ability to devour waste and convert it into cultivation progress, the rules of the world change for Lin Nian. Withered weeds transform into rare spiritual herbs, discarded slag turns into potent spiritual liquid, and worthless scraps are forged into peerless divine weapons. By day, he plays the part of a timid and overlooked outcast; by night, he becomes the undisputed king of the scrap yard, secretly plundering treasures others cast aside. While rival cultivators bleed and shatter their lives fighting over pills, rare opportunities, and cultivation manuals, Lin Nian simply keeps his head down. To him, the entire cultivation world is filled with discarded trash—and every single piece of trash is a stepping stone to the absolute peak. Scoffed at for scratching a living out of the dirt, he quietly uses discarded waste to build an empire of eternal longevity. When a catastrophic sect crisis arrives and the proud prodigies weep in despair, it is the mocked scavenger of ten years who ascends a stairway forged from endless waste.