The land stretches a thousand miles in every direction, scorched by drought and plagued by drought demons.
In a small mountain village in Yiling County, Tianlan Continent, a young man named Hu Qingshan discovers a spirit mushroom growing against the seasons in the midst of utter despair. He also saves a gravely wounded disciple of an immortal sect, earning his declining family a chance at immortal cultivation.
On the day spiritual roots are tested, his cousin is found to possess a superior-grade spiritual root. She dazzles everyone, and the immortal master praises her as an uncut gem destined to soar to the heavens in a single bound.
No one notices Hu Qingshan quietly withdrawing his hand from the spirit-testing stone in the corner. In the dust, he draws hundreds of tally marks, calmly calculating how many times this talent would get him killed.
The path to immortality is long, and powerful enemies lurk everywhere. He has no desire for revenge or thrilling adventures. All he wants is a long, peaceful life.
From then on, he becomes the invisible cornerstone of his family. On the surface, the Hu family are spirit-plant farmers, easy prey for anyone and unwilling to meddle in the world. In secret, he forges hoes from magical weapons and turns fields into formations, engraving the word “cautious” into the family bloodline.
While others risk their lives hunting treasures in secret realms, he works to improve the yield of spirit rice. While young prodigies fight to the death over magical treasures, he leads his clansmen in applying the ninety-ninth patch to their mountain-warding formation.
Many years later, a demonic calamity descends. The world falls into chaos, and countless immortal sects and legacies are wiped from existence.
When the surviving experts struggle out of the ruins, they are horrified to discover that the Hu immortal clan, famous for farming, has somehow woven its spirit veins into a vast network and gathered powerful cultivators in numbers. Its patriarch faces the terrified world with a guileless, mysterious smile.
“My Hu family,” he says, “just wants to live in peace.”
This is the story of a family that farms quietly and stays alive conspicuously, steadily growing in the brutal world of immortal cultivation until it achieves immortality.
[Reading Keywords] Clan Cultivation, Farming, Cautious Growth, Ordinary Person’s Cultivation, Behind-the-Scenes Scheming, Ensemble Cast
A very nice book about family cultivation of immortality
Looks good, but I still have more to say
Very interesting, please read more in the comments
A very good novel, one of the best among family stories.