At twenty-five, he had not even crossed the threshold of Qi Sensing. That meant his innate bones had already taken shape; unless an enormous price was paid, whether he could even reach the Mid Spirit Essence Realm in the future was questionable.
No faction with any sense would accept such a mortal into its ranks.
With the cultivation resources needed to nurture him, they could raise a dozen or twenty others instead.
Yet for some reason, Ku Qiusheng never gave up. When one place refused him, he went to the next. Every time, he knelt outside for seven days and seven nights, only giving up after begging until he reached his limit.
Some kindhearted people could not bear to watch and were moved by his determination, wishing to lend him a hand.
Yet before long, they discovered that he possessed the Spirit-Leaking Physique, one rarely seen in a hundred!
The so-called Spirit-Leaking Physique meant that after absorbing the spiritual energy within Spirit Items and Spirit Stones, ninety percent of it would dissipate, leaving only ten percent that could be used for cultivation!
And so,
the kindhearted people quietly left.
No one would pour precious cultivation resources into such a bottomless pit.
This physique was simply unsuited to cultivation.
No one knew what Ku Qiusheng had been thinking at the time. Afterward, he set out once more, leaving one footprint after another as he searched through the vast sea of people for a place of cultivation willing to take him in.
Then,
on his journey, he heard rumors of Qianyun Mountain.
After that,
amid the mocking gazes of everyone, Ku Qiusheng resolutely entered Qianyun Mountain's trial formation. With nothing but a mortal body, he passed the trial that had screened out an unknown number of Spirit Essence Realm and True Essence