Immortality Begins with Planting the Otherworldly Flower

After transmigrating, Lu Zhao becomes a lowly herb slave in the Wanling Prefecture. From the start, he's shoved into a wooden cage cart and hauled off to the “Vine Trial Grounds,” a place few ever leave alive. The bloodthirsty, vicious demon-blood vine requires herb slaves to test medicines on it every month. Those who fail either die or are left crippled. Lu Zhao draws the death lot marked “Number Seven,” and is about to become the demon vine's next meal. At the brink of despair, the memories of his previous life as a gardener awaken alongside his mysterious golden finger, the [Green Emperor's Herbal Record]! The properties of plants and medicines, the state of their life force and ailments, and clues to their mutations are all clear as day to him. He sees the source of the demon vine's agitation, and a glimmer of life hidden in the scrap heap! What others see as a death trap, he intends to use as a foothold to climb out of the abyss! He concocts spirit-infused sap from scraps, dares to enter the vine's heart in his mortal body, digs out a Fire-Vein Vine sprout with his bare hands, seizes its spiritual essence, and unlocks a divine ability! Others avoid the barren spirit fields at all costs, but he treasures them! The Green Emperor's Herbal Record shows that ancient roots slumber underground, ripe for the taking! A patch of ruined land and a vicious vine: these are the leverage he needs to change his fate! From then on, Lu Zhao embarks on a defiant path to prove the Dao through plants and trees: Plant the [Withered-Blood Demon Vine], and he can drain the spiritual energy from his enemies! Cultivate the [Sword-Intent Green Bamboo], whose leaves turn into sword talismans and whose heart nurtures the supreme sword embryo! From a herb slave trampled by all to a supreme Heavenly Venerable who commands life and death, sword intent, and space-time through spirit plants, Lu Zhao wields the [Green Emperor's Herbal Record] and climbs step by step to the heavens in a world of cultivators where all compete and the weak are prey to the strong! “Who says a farmer can't be peerless in battle? My spirit plants are me, Lu Zhao”