Cultivation begins with earning spirit stones

Jade palace crumbles, stele stands amidst autumn weeds, a wisp of cold smoke mourns kings and nobles. All worldly affairs are but fleeting dreams, I alone seek immortality in the green mountains. In Chuzhou, Huainan Road, the young Zhang Lin abandons his family and career, ascending the green mountains alone to cultivate at the Shangqing Temple. He believed it to be a path of quiet cultivation, enlightenment, and transcendence, but little did he know he was stepping into a quagmire deeper than the mortal world. The immortal gates are like abyss, the Great Dao like the sky, refining qi is the foundation, resources are the ladder. In this dog-eat-dog world of cultivation, without elixirs, superior techniques, or the protection of predecessors, how can a mortal climb the elusive ladder to immortality? Witness Zhang Lin, with his Creation System, seeks the Dao in humble circumstances, survives in struggle, uses spirit stones as fuel, and wisdom as fire, forging a world of his own.