Planting Spring and Autumn Beneath White Stone Ridge

[Medicinal Herb Farming and Business + Mortal Cultivation + Family Growth + Imperial Exams and Officialdom]

Shen Chuan was so poor he couldn't afford the medicine that would save his life. Then, beneath Baishi Ridge, he found an underground medicine chamber that could accelerate the growth of medicinal herbs.

Spring water healed wounds, and black soil nurtured herbs. At last, he could afford his mother's medicine, his younger brother's tuition, and food for the whole family.

But growing good herbs didn't guarantee a good price. Merchants forced prices down, the powerful demanded prescriptions, and some people followed the herbs' unusually early harvests all the way into the mountains.

Shen Chuan opened herb gardens and workshops while exploring the path of cultivation. His younger brother studied for a title, while he managed the family business and accumulated skills, gradually gaining the confidence to sit down and settle accounts with those people.

He had thought the chamber's secrets amounted to nothing more than spring water and black soil. That was until withered vines came back to life, and another door opened deep within the mountain...