Tribulation of the Rootless Dao

In the Heaven-Buried Continent, every child is born beneath the Measuring Star and judged by the shape of their spiritual root. Liang Chen is judged empty: no root, no fate, no path to immortality. Sold by his clan to a dying mountain sect as a servant, he expects a life of sweeping courtyards while geniuses soar above the clouds. Then, during a forbidden thunderstorm, he discovers an ancient inheritance buried beneath the sect’s ancestral graveyard: a shattered black seed that does not grant him a spiritual root, but devours the roots of heaven and earth themselves.

As Chen rises through pill halls, blood-soaked tournaments, sect conspiracies, and heavenly tribulations that seem to recognize him as an old enemy, he learns his power is not a blessing but a question left behind by a vanished immortal emperor. To cultivate without a root is to defy the order of creation. To survive, he must decide whether immortality means ascending above the world—or carrying its suffering with him into the heavens.