You Were Only Asked to Guard a Temple, So How Did You Raise an Empress?

Chen Fan, who looks after a run-down temple, has one greatest wish: to leave the mountain and see the city. Then one day, beneath the altar table dedicated to the temple’s founding master, he finds a stunningly beautiful “airhead” wife with no memory.

To keep her fed, Chen Fan has no choice but to follow his grandfather’s dying wish and offer the only hen in the house to the founding master.

[Ding! You have sacrificed one ‘old hen.’ A ten-thousandfold return has been triggered, granting you one hatchling of the ancient divine beast, the Three-Legged Golden Crow!]

From then on, Chen Fan’s “farming” life takes a completely different turn.

He sacrifices a ladle of mountain spring water and receives ten-thousand-year-old stalactite essence. He sacrifices a woodcutting axe and receives an axe that can split heaven and earth.

While gods, Buddhas, and the mighty leaders of immortal sects fight tooth and nail over a single drop of essence, Chen Fan is using it to soak Ayue’s feet. While the strongest beings in the world scour the universe for the missing Frostmoon Empress, the empress herself gazes eagerly at Chen Fan. “Fan, I want to eat chicken wings roasted over your Three-Legged Golden Crow…”