In her previous life, Shen Lingyue was an Empress with a fire-type Heavenly Spirit Root. After failing her tribulation, she opened her eyes and found herself reborn as a sixteen-year-old girl in a backwater cultivation town. To make matters worse, her once-prized Heavenly Spirit Root had become a “Five-Element Leaky Ladle” constitution, so poor at cultivation that she could absorb ten parts of spiritual energy and consider herself lucky to retain even two.
From the start, the difficulty was set to hell. To seize the slimmest chance of survival, she had no choice but to hijack a carriage. With one perfectly timed slide tackle, she made off with a treasure being sent as tribute by the Lingxi Kingdom. She hid in the cellar of a ruined temple and eagerly opened the mysterious sandalwood box edged with gold. There was no divine weapon or heaven-defying pill inside, only a lush green cucumber that could talk.
“Hey, girl, want a System? I’ll support you, you do the fighting!”
The cucumber, which claimed to be from Blue Star, was called An Xiaoye and had the [Plants and Spirits Growth System] bound to it. Thus was born the most ridiculous cultivation duo in history: the fallen Empress handled fighting and charging it up, while the talkative cucumber used “spirit mist” to aid cultivation and “spirit rain” to trigger plant mutations.
While others practiced in their cave abodes, the pair did “scientific farming” in the ruined temple cellar, using spirit rain to grow mutated glow-in-the-dark moss. While others fought tooth and nail over elusive opportunities, their “cultivation text message” feature had already pinpointed the location of a “Heart-Cleansing Herb” and the weaknesses of the demon beast guarding it.
From then on, Shen Lingyue’s path of cultivation went completely off the rails. Combining the Empress’s fighting instincts from her previous life with the scientific farming golden finger she had in this one, she would forge a path of her own through this merciless cultivation world: the comeback story of a “broke heroine and her cucumber cheat”!
