I Level Up With Spirit Stones

Five years ago, a meteorite crashed into Earth, triggering a global spiritual awakening. Overnight, humanity entered a new age of cultivation, where those blessed with spiritual roots could wield extraordinary power. Everyone awakened—except Lin Jin. Born without a spiritual root, Lin Jin became the only ordinary human left in a world ruled by cultivators. At the Yufeng Sect, he was treated as worthless, forced to do menial labor, and mocked by disciples who looked down on him. Even his parents had sacrificed their life savings just to secure him a place in the sect. Then disaster struck. Qin Li, the sect’s arrogant young master, stole spirit pills from the Heavenly Sword Pavilion and framed Lin Jin for the crime. With no one willing to believe him, Lin Jin was beaten nearly to death. At the brink of death, a mysterious system awakened within him. It offered him a way to cultivate unlike anyone else: by consuming spirit stones, he could exchange wealth for power and even unlock a spiritual root. Desperate for a chance to change his fate, Lin Jin wagered one thousand spirit stones that he would awaken before the upcoming selection tournament. He won the bet and awakened a Five-Element spiritual root—but Qin Li refused to let him rise. He forcibly extracted Lin Jin’s newly awakened spiritual root and had him and Senior Sister Xia Li exiled to the deadly Miasma Forest. But exile becomes the beginning of Lin Jin’s true transformation. With Xia Li by his side, Lin Jin discovers that every spirit stone can become a step toward unimaginable power. He devours spirit stones, breaks through cultivation realms one after another, and turns the man everyone once called a useless mortal into a force no cultivator can ignore. When Lin Jin finally returns, the sect’s selection tournament becomes his stage. Those who once mocked, framed, and crushed him are about to learn one brutal truth: the weakest man in the cultivation world is no longer weak.