[Traditional fantasy + cultivation fantasy + invincible protagonist + quick transmigration + slow-paced fantasy novel + ancient setting + historical background + slow-paced cultivation novel + male-oriented + no female lead + no System + mortal cultivation + passionate action + decisive killing + original wuxia + Tomato original + mortal-style progression + sword cultivation]
From the start, he carries loads to pay off debt; in the end, even the Immortal Venerable has to settle accounts!!!
Yan Heng crawls out of a corpse pile at Changban Slope and becomes the most miserable worker in the cultivation world:
- Earns 2 spirit shards a day, carries loads until his shoulders buckle, and translates a cultivation manual as “drink more hot water.”
- [To pay off a debt of 50 spirit stones] He loses three fingers gathering herbs, then gets his pay docked by the Pill Hall and takes the blame for their mistake.
He figures out his own survival techniques:
- Chopping wood becomes sword moves, but [his hatchet is limited to 30 swings a day]: even if his hands split open, he still has to chop!
- Blinds enemy cultivators with moisture-proof lime. When it fails in the rain, he jumps into a manure pit!
- Uses moldy bean seeds to ensnare a Nascent Soul master, but has to plant the trap three days in advance!
- When the mortgage on his cave dwelling goes unpaid and his cultivation partner demands a hundred demon cores as a betrothal gift, Yan Heng pulls out a rusty abacus:
“The Immortal Venerable is busy. Let’s settle this bad debt first!”
The hand that once tightened his shoelaces finally flicks the bead that will repay his debt amid the tribulation lightning.
