How Can a Mere Mortal Cultivate Immortality Through Farming?

[Two Male Leads + Transmigrate into a Book + Farming and Cultivation + Bottom's POV + Slow-Paced Farming Life + System + Pocket Dimension]

Yi Luo, an abandoned child of the Heavenly Dao, opens his eyes to find himself transmigrated as the sacrificial husband in a cultivation novel about winning back a spouse, a cannon-fodder male wife doomed to meet a tragic end in the very first chapter.

Even stranger, the place he has arrived in is a ridiculous mash-up of a cultivation novel and a farming novel.

In the cultivation world, the original novel's protagonist, Lin Yuexuan, was infatuated with a heaven-blessed prodigy in his previous life, only to suffer cold treatment and a vicious betrayal. In this life, he binds himself to a romance-targeting System, hoping to win someone else's heart instead, only to discover the plot is no longer going the way he expected.

Meanwhile, in the farming world, the original farming protagonist, who was supposed to develop the countryside, is unexpectedly drafted into the army. The opportunity instead falls to Yi Luo.

He lucks into binding a farming lord System, complete with a spirit spring, spirit fields, and a storage dimension.

Later, caught up in the melodramatic cultivation novel about winning back a spouse, he steers clear of every love-triangle battlefield and just wants to focus on building his livelihood.

Farming, infrastructure, cultivation, and the occasional scheme against rich second-generation cultivators, arrogant chosen ones, and sect prodigies: he gathers resources and wealth every step of the way. He's never been a good person, just greedy, selfish, calculating, cold-hearted, and unattached. Yet he lives more freely than anyone.

But as time goes by, he makes no effort to hide his edge, and people who can't stand him keep showing up to provoke him. He understands that much, and can only defend his patch of land and deal with each new challenge as it comes.

But if it were only those outsiders, that would be one thing. Why are the people around him looking at him more and more strangely, too?

Content warnings:

1. Supporting characters get a lot of page time, while the various love interests are mostly in the background. Some ensemble-cast elements.

2. This is not a traditional wholesome farming-and-cultivation story. The protagonist is cold-hearted and selfish by nature.

3. The protagonist is calculating and heartless. Everyone's feelings are unrequited.