Name: A Plant-Based Cultivator Returns to Earth in the 1960s
Author: Totoro Immortal

Synopsis

A top student at a prestigious university accidentally transmigrated to a cultivation world and spent a century there, eventually becoming a Nascent Soul cultivator. But when he returned to Earth, a temporal displacement sent him to the impoverished 1960s, where people barely had enough clothes or food.

He had no System, no golden finger, and not even a trace of spiritual energy. All he had was a portable dimension where time flowed differently, so he set out to farm and make sure he always had enough to eat and drink.

While others harvested one crop a year, he harvested more than ten.

What? The dimension can level up too?

So what if there's nothing to eat or drink? I've got my dimension.

While everyone else begged and pleaded for grain coupons, he had mountains of supplies, tens of thousands of tons piled up inside his portable dimension. He was the only underground grain king in this era of scarcity, controlling the county's entire black-market grain supply. While others made just twenty yuan a month, he was already earning over ten thousand a month in the 1960s.

So what if there's no spiritual energy? The dimension can grow spiritual plants, so he can still cultivate immortality.

Hunting, gathering herbs, growing vegetables, raising pigs: what others saw as a miserable life, he found incredibly comfortable.

Ingredients nurtured by spiritual spring water made a pot of porridge fragrant enough to scent half the village. A simple plate of pickled radish had the commune secretary eating three bowls of rice. A pot of soup made with wild mountain produce drew cheers from provincial experts visiting the countryside.

But a Nascent Soul cultivator's ambitions went far beyond that. He remembered the technological developments of the coming decades. While everyone else was still worrying over a single pound of grain coupons, he was already riding the wave of the times, viewing the whole board through a cultivator's eyes.

This is the story of a Nascent Soul cultivator farming, hunting, raising spirit pets, and cooking delicious food in the 1960s, while incidentally changing the world one step at a time. [Two million words, from modern cultivation to black technology.]

Other names

Transmigrate to Cultivation: A Farmer's Rise in the 1960s穿越修真，种田农民崛起六零年代Alternate title on Fanqie

Stats

539Chapters

11.5kReads · 30 days

1.6MReads · all time

1kShelf adds, last 14 days

8.6Score

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