The Great Dao Is Simple: I Chopped Wood for Ten Thousand Years as an Immortal Venerable

Xiao Han, a young man from the modern world, transmigrates to a cultivation realm and becomes the most inconspicuous menial laborer in Qinglan Sect. With his five spiritual roots too mixed to be useful, he is dismissed as “useless” and spends day after day chopping firewood in the back hills.

No one knows that every swing of his axe brings him closer to understanding the Great Dao. He observes the grain of the wood and comprehends the circulation of the Five Elements; he senses the plants and grasps the rhythm of life. Through the humble axe, his ordinary labor brings him into contact with the origin of chaos.

After ten thousand years of chopping wood, the sound of his axe reverberates across mountains and rivers. When the Black Fiend Sect smashes through the gates and the cultivation world is plunged into crisis, the “menial” who has always held an axe slowly rises. One swing cleaves through illusion; the next brings order to the world.

It turns out the Great Dao was never in the clouds, but in daily life, in every swing of an axe and every strike of a chisel.