Some were born with innate celestial abilities, the chosen ones, while others required constant, postnatal effort to seize that slim chance to awaken their dormant potential.
Chen Dengming was, doubtlessly, of the latter sort.
In the world, there is people of tranquility received the innate celestial abilities, who were not scarce nor plentiful; their number even surpassed those who struggled their way to attainment.
Yet... many of those with exceptional talents perished prematurely, forgotten by the world.
For those who perished too early in the mortal world, were often embellished and transformed into legends that lofty cultivators and common men loved to chatter about, as long as they had lived a period of glorious history.
But if someone perished under the Nether Spring, how many people in the mortal world would remember their names, regardless of their past glories?