My Sister-in-Law Tried to Steal My Spiritual Root, So I Had to Cultivate Immortality

[Steady cultivation + slice-of-life farming + mortal cultivation + no System + no female lead] Dirt-poor Li Tieniu scrapes by under the whips of his older brother and sister-in-law, dreaming only of setting up his own household at sixteen and escaping the family that is slowly devouring him.

But his cruel sister-in-law has already set her sights on the spiritual root in his belly and "sells" him to the wealthy Zhang Papi family as a live-in son-in-law. It's a deadly trap where "they take a new groom every year, and no one survives past the autumn harvest"!

Driven into a corner, Li Tieniu's pent-up fury erupts! He kicks his venomous sister-in-law down, grabs the bundle of strange brown bamboo he chopped himself, which had been secretly drinking blood, and flees into the night.

The blood-drinking bamboo demon is beginning to awaken. Corpses lie buried in the Zhang family's fields, and a family heirloom from his father's generation has drawn murderous intent.

From a "beast" waiting to be slaughtered to the master of a mysterious treasure, Li Tieniu's desperate flight marks the bloody beginning of a storm that will shake the mortal world and the path to immortality!