The Jade Cicada's Repayment: My Discarded Flaws Are Mistaken for Treasures

Cui Yuchen was the lowest sweeper of the Shrouded-Pine Pavilion, cursed with shattered meridians and endlessly mocked by the elite disciples. When the arrogant sect heir Gao Renxue violently stomps on a glowing winter cicada because its song interrupted his meditation, Yuchen spends his meager life-force and winter rations to nurse the dying insect back to health. He doesn’t realize the creature is the legendary Longyin Cicada, an ancient spirit of metamorphosis. To repay his kindness, the cicada binds to Yuchen’s soul, granting him the Heavenly Dao of the Chrysalis. Now, whenever Yuchen faces hardship, poison, or bottlenecks, he literally 'molts' the flaw away, emerging stronger and more talented. The twist? His discarded flaws manifest as radiant, spiritual amber husks that look exactly like peerless cultivation treasures. As the greedy disciples who once tormented him scheme to steal these 'divine artifacts,' they unknowingly absorb his discarded poverty, poisons, and crippled meridians. With his bullies actively ruining their own foundations to steal his trash, how far will Yuchen ascend by simply shedding his past?