Who Says You Can't Cultivate Without Spiritual Roots? Proving the Dao Without Roots: Season 40

About the story

In the Savage Realm, spiritual roots determine everything. Those who possess them can pursue immortality and command life and death; those without them remain mere ants, even after a lifetime of effort. Han Fan is one such ant. With neither spiritual roots nor connections, he is a servant at the very bottom of the Liuli Sword Sect, enduring constant humiliation and unable even to count on a full meal. He believes he is destined to scrape through life in the mud, until one day, while cutting bamboo in the mountains, he happens upon a rusty, broken sword named Fuxian.