Mountain Village Divine Farmer

Zhang Fugui, a boy from Yaotian Village, finds a gray-green seed in a dry well: the last spark of life left behind by Shennong. In those days, the nine towers of the Marrow-Draining Network pierced the skies across the Nine Provinces, draining the life from the earth's veins. The Pure World Sect purged all mutations in the name of purification. The land had been dead for ten thousand years, and no one dared lift a hand to help. Bearing the seed, he ventures into the world, traveling from the fungal forests of the Southern Frontier to the icy wastes of the Northern Plains. Along the way, he tears down towers and cultivates the soil. He uses cultivation to clear the blockage in the Central Province's earth veins, symbiosis to settle the grievances of the East Sea's Dead Sea, excision to cut out the Western Desert's rotten roots, and dialogue to awaken the Northern Plains' frozen abyss. At last, he ascends alone to the ninth floor of the Tower of Annihilation, using the proof of his existence to resist the erasure of existence itself, and bringing Shennong's legacy into balance with the will of annihilation. Three years after the battle, a tower of green jade rises from the ruins of the Heavenly Ruins Basin. It is named Gu Heng. He sits with his sword across his knees, neither seeking a place in the halls of power nor ruling over others, but simply keeping watch without end. This is not a face-slapping power fantasy about a boy finding a treasure. It is the story of someone bending down to help the earth's veins back to their feet after they have died. In the wilderness, Shennong lives on. Life and renewal are the way of change; balance is the Great Dao. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.