In the cultivation world, there is one undeniable truth: Karma is indestructible.

  The strong can transfer Karma, wielding the Laws of Heaven and Earth as a blade to sever the chains of fate. The weak are simply swallowed by it. They are dragged into the abyss by Karmic Debt, reduced to ash by Heaven's punishment, or crushed as stepping stones beneath the sins of others.

  So, when a pair of highly cultivated Daoist partners faced utter annihilation from an unspeakable, monstrous Karmic Debt, they chose the oldest, most ruthless, and most efficient method of survival.

  Have a child. Stuff the Karma inside. Let Heaven smite the kid instead.

  On the day of his birth, heavenly lightning descended. It struck with terrifying precision, shattering the infant's Heavenly Spirit Root into a worthless Four-Element Spirit Root.

  But it didn't kill him.

  Heaven's ledger missed a calculation. The lightning didn't just fail to take his life. Through some glitch in fate, it left behind a vessel of the Heavenly Dao within his body—something unrecorded in any cultivation manual. He would later call it The Heavenly Crucible. It could forcibly refine anything: toxins, Demonic Aura, Death Aura, and even Karma itself.

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  It took him seven years to realize he wasn't dead. It took another three to realize that surviving might be more dangerous than dying.

  He was ten that year. Hiding behind a cracked door, he listened to his parents casually discussing—with the same calm tone one might use to decide what to eat for dinner—the best time to "dispose" of their broken burden.

  Through the crack, he saw his mother’s knuckles turning white from the sheer force of gripping her teacup.

  From that day on, Xu Nan began to eat.

  He ate like his life depended on it, cultivating a round, smiling, harmless exterior. He needed everyone who looked at him to form one immediate thought: Ah, just an ordinary, Four-Element Spirit Root, easily bullied fat piece of trash.

  Mediocrity was the ultimate camouflage.

  Three years later, both his parents died. Rumor had it that the Karmic Debt they had transferred to their child eventually rebounded through the Heavenly Dao, crushing them instead.

  Xu Nan was thirteen when he heard the news. He sat in silence for a long time. Then, he got up, went to the kitchen, and cooked himself a bowl of noodles.

  Emotions were a liability. To survive, he forced himself to forge a cold, internal Iron-clad Abacus. He refused to invest a single ounce of emotional capital into sunk costs he couldn't change.

  Later, he entered the Outer Sect of the Lingxiao Sect in The Central Continent. Posing as the son of a bankrupt mortal merchant—and a Four-Element Spirit Root reject—he began his "ordinary" cultivation career.

  This was his third year there. Sixteen years old, stalled at the third level of the Qi Condensation Realm.

  Current Progress: 90+ chapters already completed in the original Chinese version.

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