Waiting to Die in a Barren Field, Until an Old Ox Teaches Me Immortality

Gu Qingwei is framed by a wicked steward of his sect for stealing and selling three thousand shi of spirit rice. Stricken with a deadly fire poison, he is exiled to the barren Wandu Wasteland, where he is left to die. All he has for company is a drafty, tumbledown shack and a dying old cow with one horn broken off and a hind leg smashed.

At the end of his rope, the ancient bronze seal on Gu Qingwei's chest awakens, allowing him to glimpse the microscopic cycles of life and death in the scorched, toxic earth. He uses his five-element spiritual roots as fuel and the Myriad Transformation Seal as a furnace, drawing the fire poison into the soil and taming ancient poison-devouring mystic fungi. The toxic mud, compacted for ten thousand years, is transformed inch by inch into fertile black earth!

As he endures agonizing pain to save the dying old cow beside him, its throat bone trembles, and it speaks in a desolate voice that has not been heard for a century: "You foolish child... Why bother saving a cow that's already on its last legs? The real ledger of that damned steward's accounts isn't in the accounting office. It's in the iron essence chest beneath the dried-up spring behind the mountain!"

From then on, the man and the cow become sworn allies, bound for life and death. He uses poison to nourish the soil and grows red-cloud immortal rice yielding ten thousand jin per mu. With his spiritual power, he commands the myriad beasts, weaving a network of eyes and ears across the entire sect! When golden waves ripple across the fields, watch how this insignificant blade of grass tramples the gates of the immortal clans!