Guan He got too close while watching the commotion, laughing so hard over sunflower seeds that he could not stop himself: a heavenly prodigy publicly shifted the blame onto him and claimed he was their “true love.”
Overnight, his entire family was imprisoned, while he was hunted into the Black Miasma Mountains.
As a ninth-grade mortal cultivator with blocked meridians, he should have died.
That is, until he activated the ancestral “Jinx” ring in his moment of despair, and it fused into his palm.
It could purify spiritual energy, analyze all things, and give birth to the myriad paths of chaos from his palm.
Along the way, he also picked up a big black ox in the mountains. It was stubborn and greedy, but in desperate situations, one stomp of its hoof could open a path to survival.
One man and one ox fought their way back out of the Black Miasma Mountains.
At first, he thought he only wanted to save his family.
But he never expected to be drawn into an even greater vortex.
The Gu family's thousand-year curse, the mystery of the ring, and the factions within the sects.
A young man who originally knew only how to tend seedlings somehow found himself standing at the very center of the vortex.
“I was originally just a farmer.”
“Now, heavenly prodigies are merely the threshold to meeting me.”