Terryander
In a universe where immortals harvest asteroids and salvation depends on energy quotas, cultivation is not a path of destiny - it is an industry. Mo Xuan was once an ordinary middle school student on Earth, until a lightning strike tore his soul from his body and flung him into the Qingyuan Minor Immortal Realm - a declining world stranded in the endless Void. Reborn into a poor clan that sacrifices generations to fund his education, Mo Xuan discovers that becoming an immortal is not about talent alone. It requires examination quotas, scarce resources, and survival in a cosmos already scraped nearly dry. In this realm, immortals do not soar freely across heaven. They work. They scavenge. They mine drifting asteroids for energy to keep their dying world from collapsing. Armed with a low-grade void transport vessel, crushing debt to the Grand Academy, and the weight of his family's two-hundred-year sacrifice on his shoulders, Mo Xuan ventures into the infinite darkness as a "Void Scavenger" - an interstellar miner gambling his life against cosmic monsters and unstable space. But the Void is not empty. Ancient creatures drift between the stars. Mysterious energy cores shine like newborn suns. And somewhere within the wreckage of abandoned worlds lies the chance to build an Immortal Garden - a personal microcosm that separates a mere half-immortal from a true celestial being. To save his family. To repay generations of sacrifice. To rise in a universe that is running out of energy. Mo Xuan must gamble everything. In the end, immortality is not granted by fate. It is mined from the darkness.