Primordial Null Nexus: I can comprehend and cultivate all paths
In a world where power is ranked from F to SSR, he was branded a failure. In a universe where cultivation is forgotten, he became its last heir.
Two hundred years after the Great Awakening filled Earth with cosmic energy, society runs on a simple, brutal logic: your Talent Tier is your destiny. Robert Walton, a seventeen-year-old with an F-Tier "Null" rating, isn't just at the bottom he's a societal ghost, the ultimate punching bag for bullies and a disgrace to his struggling family in the fortified slums of Nova-7.
His life is a constant cycle of humiliation, until a shard of obsidian crystal from a lost reality crashes into his scrapyard. It doesn't contain power. It contains a teacher. Lin Zhong, an ancient guardian spirit from the primordial era of cultivation, awakens within him.
While the elites of Nova-7 flaunt their flashy SS-ranked ice and time manipulation or SSS-tier martial flames, Robert is taught a forgotten truth: their "powers" are cheap copies. He is offered the original blueprint of reality itself. His "Null" status isn't a weakness, it's the perfect blank slate to learn the foundational laws of existence: density, gravity, silence, and chaos.
Awakening as a Primordial Nexus, Robert embarks on a path no one else can walk: he can comprehend, and ultimately cultivate, all paths. While a fire mage learns to cast a spell, Robert learns the Law of Combustion. While a kinetic brawler enhances his strength, Robert masters the Law of Density. He doesn't choose a class he reverse-engineers reality itself, building his power from the cosmic ground up.
Guided by his sarcastic spectral master and aided by a stone-jawed lynx with a secret royal bloodline and a shrinking habit, Robert must walk two worlds. By day, he navigates the treacherous hierarchy of a fortress city under siege from mutant beasts, hiding his growing power. By night, he cultivates, learning to harvest energy from trash and storms, turning society's waste into the building blocks of a legend.
His goals are simple, yet monumental: protect his family, shut up every bully who ever looked down on him, and pass the Unified Academy Entrance Exam to win a better life. But to do that, he’ll have to stand beside and eventually against the dazzling prodigies of his generation: the elegant ice-wielding heiress, the fiery martial artist, the charismatic golden boy, and the lightning-fast troublemaker who sees a kindred spirit in Robert's quiet defiance.
As Robert unravels the true, decaying nature of his world and the dark mysteries lurking beyond the city walls, one thing becomes clear: the system that labeled him trash is about to get a glitch it can't debug.
He was told he had no talent. He's about to show them he doesn't need one.
