You Were Told to Farm, Not to Turn the Cultivation World Upside Down

Lin Yan transmigrates to the brutal world of immortal cultivation, where he becomes the lowest-ranking spiritual-field laborer in the Black Mystic Sect.

With mediocre aptitude and dwindling vitality, he is on the brink of being thrown out of the sect.

A hellish start? No problem. He’s bound to the All Things Growth System!

He thought he’d finally be on the road to the top, but it turns out the System is a nonstop, razor-tongued chatterbox...

[Ding! Host detected turning the soil. Tsk, what a clumsy move. Even the wild boars at the foot of the mountain are more graceful than you!]

[Warning! Host has only 5 stamina points left. If you force those spirit plants to mature, you’ll drop dead before you even touch a leaf of that blood ginseng! This System doesn’t want to have to find another short-lived Host right after binding!]

[Host, you’d better pray your practical skills can match your brains. Don’t make our System look bad!]

Faced with a System that gives him blueprints but no fish, and spends every day making snide remarks, Lin Yan loses his temper.

No cheat powers? Fine!

He pulls out Introduction to Modern Agronomy and uses soil pH adjustments to improve barren land, plants’ complementary properties to arrange deadly formations, and grafting techniques to cultivate peerless immortal herbs!

Years later, while the entire cultivation world fights tooth and nail over a single spirit herb, Lin Yan lies in a rocking chair in his own spiritual fields, gazing at the hillsides blanketed with mutated immortal herbs and sighing.

“System, stop scolding them. Keep it up and they’ll all wither.”

[...Hmph, you carbon-based waste of space. You’re lucky. This System merely acknowledges your farming skills, and only grudgingly!]

[Easygoing farming + sharp-tongued System + satisfying contrast + smart protagonist + no saintly do-gooder]

See how a graduate student in rigorous agricultural science, armed with a sharp-tongued System that’s all bark and soft-hearted underneath, manages to turn the lofty...