Long Life on the Ridge

Mortal flow Lu Guan, a young farm boy whose ancestors had never left Qingxi County for three generations, used his family's fortune saved for forty years in exchange for a low-grade volume of "The Art of Breathing and Inhaling the Poor Earth". No spiritual roots, no talent, no immortal destiny. Other monks breathed in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but he could only step barefoot on the ridge of the field and absorb the most mixed turbid spirit from the soil. Turning the soil is to strengthen the muscles, taking root is to nourish the Qi, and the autumn harvest is to condense the breath. Sixteen years of farm work has become his only way to cultivate immortality. It wasn't until the Xuanqing Sect was recruiting disciples that a notice about the handyman examination made him see the possibility of leaving the field for the first time. But the road ahead is not smooth: in the county, the Chifeng Song family threatened to take all the places; the Lan brothers of Lanxi had a deadly feud with the Song family; and the task of escorting felons brought an undercurrent of trouble to him...