Who Wants to Dual Cultivate with a Potato?

The all-terrain, fully automatic troublemaking potato x the Sword Venerable, who spent years in solitude and suddenly becomes both husband and father

[Blurb]

Songyang is the only potato spirit in the Xuanjing Sect.

Before she was even conscious, she accidentally formed a bond of love and devotion with the Sword Venerable, Li Qizhen.

Unless they sever the bond, the only way for them to improve their cultivation is through dual cultivation.

One of her fellow disciples asks around and hears that the Sword Venerable has guarded the Jiuyi Barrier for sixty years. Wouldn't that make him an old man with white hair and the bearing of an immortal?

"?" Songyang frowns and hastens her bond-breaking practice. "I don't want an old man!"

As a potato spirit with scant spiritual power, and further constrained by the Manman Contract, Songyang can't refine pills or wield a sword. When pushed to her limits, all she can do is sprout little pink flowers. The Hehuan Sect dismisses her as an emotionless plant, while the Unfeeling Sect says she's the Sword Venerable's partner and can't possibly be sent to their sect. Repeatedly rebuffed, she sneaks back to Mount Jiuyi, buries herself in the soil again, and hangs her head in dejection.

"Look at the state of you, covered in dirt. What will people think?" A gentle, amused sigh sounds above her.

A shaft of light breaks through the earth. Before her stands a young man in robes white as snow, looking down at her with an amused smile.

His bearing is otherworldly. He needn't break through any realm to look like an immortal descended from the Ninth Heaven.

Songyang is so startled she gets a mouthful of dirt.

Who told her Li Qizhen was an old man?!

Li Qizhen is a transmigrator.

The year he transmigrated into this world of cultivation, plagued by natural disasters and littered with the starving dead, he was still young.

Born with a sword bone and exceptional talent, he cleaved open the gates of the Ninth Heaven with a single strike, cutting off the path to immortality for all the world's evil spirits. Since then, he has remained at the summit of Mount Jiuyi.

Then one day, he went out traveling and brought back a potato plant, hoping it would give the world a glimmer of hope.

Nourished day and night by spiritual power and steeped in sword intent, the potato never yielded a harvest. Instead, it took human form.

When he learned about the bond they'd formed, Li Qizhen could only smile helplessly.

A potato is a perennial herb in the nightshade genus, a great benefactor responsible for the population boom in human history. Its best fate is to become hash browns, fries, chips, or wedges. It's also delicious stir-fried or cooked with vinegar.

Who would want to practice dual cultivation with a potato?

Later, he discovered another way to enjoy potatoes.

#The hash browns, fries, chips, and wedges look down at you from the heavens in disappointment.

A story about a modern man who tries to grow potatoes in a famine-stricken world, accidentally grows himself a wife instead, and then watches as she saves the world.

The theme draws on the Zhuangzi's "Discussion on Making All Things Equal," using it in an opposing sense.

Theme: The Way gives rise to all things, and love brings them to fruition.