Reborn as a Spirit Herb, I Became the Patriarch

Story blurb

One day, Qi Jie transmigrates and discovers that he has become an ordinary mustard plant, unable to run or jump, move or speak.

Since it can be used to treat a tiger's cold, but is very hard to find, a rather clever tiger cub often comes to guard it, planning to eat it in one bite if it ever gets sick.

The little tiger guards it and takes it along. Many years pass, and by a twist of fate, the tiger transforms from an ordinary tiger into a demon tiger. Having been bathed in spiritual energy, the plant also becomes a spirit herb.

But even as a spirit herb, Qi Jie can only occasionally convey certain feelings to the tiger. Speaking is even more difficult.

They travel from the mortal world to the cultivation world. Demon beasts from other tiger clans try to steal it, and human cultivators want to dig it up. Every time, the tiger fights them until it is covered in wounds, then curls up beside the spirit herb to heal in silence.

Qi Jie, whose nature has always been gentle, feels the tiger suffer injury after injury and bathe in blood again and again. His temper grows more and more fiery, his heart burning as though on a brazier.

He tries again and again to make the tiger leave, telling it to let him fend for himself. But the tiger refuses, no matter what...

Until one day, just as he becomes a twelfth-grade spirit herb and reaches the critical moment of taking human form, a group of powerful cultivators beats the tiger half to death before his eyes. They threaten to skin and dismember it for alchemical materials and dig out its demon core in exchange for resources...

Qi Jie is beside himself with rage. He draws down the heavenly tribulation ahead of schedule and successfully takes human form, tempered by the lightning.

With a single move, he stirs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, making everything within a thousand li pale in comparison. A wave of his hand sets space surging, and a mere trace of spatial power makes the cultivators fall to their knees, begging for mercy as they cough up blood...

Who says spirit herbs and demon beasts have no feelings? Who claims that spirit herbs who take human form are always gentle in nature?

See how an ordinary plant endures countless trials, traces its bloodline back to its source, and becomes a supreme treasure of heaven and earth: the Sumeru Mustard Seed. With a wave of his hand, he can create all kinds of secret realms and carve out a world for spirit plants and demon tigers...

The sect he founds himself rises from an obscure start to conquer the heavens, until the name of Penglai Immortal Mountain, a first-grade immortal sect, resounds across the nine thousand great worlds! He becomes a renowned powerhouse!

This is the story of the founding patriarch of Penglai Immortal Mountain, who will appear in a series of cultivation novels.

Theme: Strive to cultivate immortality