When five-year-old Zhang Yaya (Ruo Ya) is pushed down a dry well by her cousin, all she can think about is, “I haven’t eaten the half piece of wheat bread Ma hid.” But when she opens her eyes again, she is not only back from the dead: the red mark between her brows can make the weeds around the well grow wildly. She has no idea that the little goddess Xibao, a Chaos spirit root who fled after the divine realm collapsed, now lives inside her.
The year fragments of the divine realm rained down, a three-year drought struck the Weichuan Basin. The eldest and second branches of the family locked the disaster relief grain in their storehouses and even planned to sell her to the Worship God Cult in exchange for millet. Yaya has no time to wonder who she is. She grabs a little hoe and starts clearing land to grow potatoes. “First, I’ll make sure Ma and my brothers have enough to eat!” Who knew the potatoes would become more and more extraordinary? They not only fill bellies, but also purify contaminated well water and even drive off refugees who come to steal the food.
But trouble follows close behind. The Worship God Cult calls her a “bringer of calamity” and tries to capture her for a sacrifice. Old enemies from the divine realm track her energy and come to steal her spirit root, while the distant divine realm waits for her to return and clean up its mess. As Yaya squats on the field ridge pulling weeds, she sighs at the remnant soul of a War God who suddenly appears. “I can rebuild the divine realm, but only after I harvest this crop of potatoes. Otherwise, my brothers will go hungry again!”
From growing potatoes to survive to taking on villains with a hoe, who could have guessed that the key to saving both realms was hidden in the vegetable patch of a little farm girl?
