When Lin Yuan wakes up, he and all of humanity have been thrown into the Xuanyou Realm, where the Heavenly Dao has collapsed. Every cultivation technique is corrupted, and each attempt to cultivate could leave you mutated and insane. While everyone else starts with a dilapidated wooden hut, he starts in an underground cave. Well, this is familiar territory, so he gets back to growing mushrooms. Unfortunately, when he opens a treasure chest, a ??? takes up residence inside him!
Cave Rating: Special. Upgrade Requirements: mycelium, slime, bizarre vines... Things are getting weird. While other people kill monsters to level up, he crouches beside a swamp digging up clay. While others wield flying swords and magical treasures, he handcrafts stone axes and shovels, using his appraisal skill to become a “wholesale supplier of construction and weapons.”
Then, from a pitch-black puddle, he fishes out a dull silver chest. He opens it and finds a demon blade wreathed in whispers.
The unknown parasite inside him gradually awakens, too. His status panel clearly reads: [??? Symbiosis].
Gazing at the countdown to the bizarre calamity that changes every month, Lin Yuan grips the blade and pats the mushroom field where fresh shoots have just emerged.
“Fine. My dream of becoming a sword cultivator is dead, but I can become a blade cultivator instead. The path to immortality is blocked, so I’ll build things, farm, and live in symbiosis with fungi... I want it all.”
In this bizarre cultivation world, where spirit values plummet and everything can go insane, his only S-rank talent is this: stay clearheaded forever, stay rational forever, and then... cover the mad world in his mushrooms.
(Chinese-style cosmic horror + survival for all + hardcore farming + bizarre cultivation. The protagonist is smart, decisive, and ruthless, with an unusual golden finger.)
