Too Many Five Elements? Forge a Heavenly Spirit Root at the Start

[Animated Adaptation Available] + [Immortal Cultivation] + [Villain] + [Enhancement] + [Sneaky Schemer] + [No Female Lead]

[Original Title: Too Many Spiritual Roots? Start by Synthesizing a Heavenly Spiritual Root] [Alternate Title: A Mortal's Cultivation: I Have an Enhancement Panel]

At the Extreme Yin Sect's disciple recruitment ceremony, human lives are worth less than weeds.

No spiritual roots? Extract the soul and refine the blood! Awakened five spiritual roots? Extract the soul and refine the corpse!

Zhao Hao trembles in the queue, because his system panel clearly shows that he has the absolute worst kind: mixed spiritual roots of all five elements! With his turn fast approaching, Zhao Hao desperately opens the enhancement system, tosses all four spiritual roots other than his fire root into the "Consumable Materials Slot," and forcibly enhances his fire spiritual root.

[Ding! Success Rate: 80%. Enhancement commencing... Enhancement failed!]
[Notice: Consumable materials (metal, wood, water, and earth spiritual roots) have been destroyed!]

Zhao Hao closes his eyes in despair. The enhancement failed. I'm done for!

But a moment later, the cold elder who was just extracting and refining souls lights up with delight. "A fire-attribute heavenly spiritual root without a single trace of impurities from other attributes! Our Extreme Yin Sect is destined to flourish!"

Zhao Hao freezes. "Huh? Even a failed enhancement can work like that?"

From then on, the cultivation world gains a ruthless demonic outlaw whom even other demonic cultivators want beaten to a pulp. His magical treasures aren't strong enough? Melt down all his enemies' treasures! His cultivation techniques are too weak? Use a whole stack of other techniques as enhancement materials! Zhao Hao discovers that as long as he's bold enough, absolutely anything can be used as material!