Name: Cultivating Immortality with a Broken Basket on My Back
Author: Shan Shen

Synopsis

[Mortal cultivation + no System + xianxia + no romance early on + fantasy + alternate world]

Because Jiang Tang has five spiritual roots, she is considered a good-for-nothing in the cultivation world and can only work as an outer-sect laborer at the Xuantian Sect.

At first, she is assigned to the firewood-cutting crew, earning her keep by chopping wood each day. Whenever she sees inner-sect disciples flying past on their swords, she can’t help feeling longing and envy.

One day, she accidentally cuts herself while chopping wood. Her bleeding triggers an old woven basket her father left her, and the well water she takes from it turns into a spiritual spring.

She puts a low-grade spiritual fruit into the basket, and the next morning it has become two, both top-grade. Low-grade spiritual herbs she gathers transform into mid-grade herbs after just half a day inside, earning rewards from the immortal master for her and her companions alike.

Cultivation techniques, magical artifacts, spirit stones, and more, all can be put inside and enhanced.

From then on, Jiang Tang rises from an outer-sect laborer to a rising star of the inner sect, using her basket to defy fate...

Until one day, she discovers that she was powerful all along. From that moment, the mystery of her origins will be revealed...

Stats

162Chapters

175Reads · 30 days

27.2kReads · all time

102Shelves

6.9Score

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