After graduating from agricultural college, Ling Yun crosses into a cultivation world in a fit of anger when his graduation project is destroyed. This world is filled with immortals seeking longevity and powerful beasts capable of causing great upheaval. There are also various extraordinary professions. In the face of this magical world, Ling Yun only wants to continue his farming endeavors that he couldn’t complete in his previous life. At the same time, he wants to see how far he can take farming by combining his past agricultural techniques with the cultivation methods of this world.
In the Wind Spirit Sea, there is an island called Spirit Water Island.
Spirit Water Island spans several dozen miles, and it is named because of the presence of a spiritual spring on the island, which extends into a spiritual water river.
Due to the existence of the spiritual spring, although Spirit Water Island cannot be compared to those islands with spiritual veins, it can still be considered to have a bit of spiritual energy.
With this limited spiritual energy, the Fang family on the island has been passed down for hundreds of years.
On this day, at the peak of a towering mountain in the center of Spirit Water Island, a young figure stood alone, looking ahead, and let out a long sigh.
"I didn't expect to have crossed over like this, and to encounter such an opening—what bad luck."
The person speaking was named Fang Yun, and in his previous life, he was also called Ling Yun.
That's right, Fang Yun is a traveler from another world.
In his past life, he was a student at an agricultural college. Just before graduation, he was already overwhelmed with various job search issues.
He had stayed up several nights in a row, fully preparing for job interviews.
Unexpectedly, just when he was busy looking for a job, his carefully cultivated super tomatoes were completely picked by some heartless person.
Those tomatoes were cultivated after he spent over half a year selecting seeds and taking care of the plants!
Moreover, that plant was growing exceptionally well, producing over twenty tomatoes in one bunch.
Which damned guy actually picked them all, leaving not a single one for him?
With his graduation project gone, graduating would require a lot more effort, and he might even end up not graduating. It was easy to imagine how devastating this was for Ling Yun.
When the bad news came, combined with several consecutive nights of exhaustion, Ling Yun's body couldn't take the strain and he fainted. He then crossed over to this place, becoming the current Fang Yun.
Although the Fang family on Spirit Water Island has a history of several hundred years, it could only barely be called a semi-immortal family.
This was not due to a lack of heirs but rather because the spiritual energy on this island is extremely thin, only enough to support one cultivator's needs.
So, usually, it is only when the previous cultivator's lifespan is about to run out that the family will seek someone with spiritual roots from within to cultivate.
This method of inheritance has significant drawbacks.
For instance, if the only cultivator on the island were to die unexpectedly, or if the cultivator were nearing death and there was no one with spiritual roots in the family, the situation would be dire.
Only after the cultivator's death would someone with spiritual roots appear.
In such circumstances, the family would have to rely on the clan elders, using rudimentary spirit-testing stones to search for someone with spiritual roots within the family, and then cultivate them.
If they fail to find anyone, they would have to wait for the next generation to grow up before continuing the search.
Using this rudimentary method of inheritance, the Fang family has struggled to pass down their legacy for hundreds of years.
Fortunately, Spirit Water Island's value is quite low, and no cultivator would pay it much attention.
Even if some cultivators were coveting the spiritual spring on this island, the Fang family's accumulated heritage over hundreds of years could still fend them off.
After all, cultivators who would look down on a spring that is much weaker than a spiritual vein are likely not very strong themselves.
Fang Yun became the only cultivator in the Fang family under the circumstance of the previous generation's cultivator suddenly passing away.
The previous generation's cultivator left the island to trade for some cultivation supplies, but after that, he never returned.
It was clear that he had encountered an accident along the way and lost his life.
The previous generation's cultivator was merely at the second layer of Qi Refining.
It was entirely normal for someone in such a low cultivation realm to meet with such a tragic end while trading outside.
After all, the world of cultivation is fraught with danger, especially for low-level cultivators like them.
It can be said that the past cultivators of the Fang family often encountered misfortune for this very reason.
If one's strength is too weak, it's best to stay on the island and not venture out.
Once they do go out, they must be mentally prepared to be wiped out at any moment.
After the previous generation of cultivators passed away, the clan elders used a rudimentary spirit-testing stone to find Fang Yun, who possessed spiritual roots.
Thus, at the age of just 16, he became the new generation of cultivators for the Fang family and naturally became the new clan leader.
After becoming the clan leader, Fang Yun officially took over all the cultivation resources of the Fang family.
These included a spiritual spring and two plots of spiritual farmland nourished by the water from this spring.
In addition, there were a dozen spirit stones emitting a faint glow and a manual for the Changchun Skill that could cultivate one to the third layer of Qi Refining.
There were also several talismans with various attributes and a slightly damaged magical artifact.
However, the talismans and the magical artifact were considered the profound heritage of the Fang family, and even the clan leader Fang Yun was not qualified to use them at will.
This was to ensure that if the clan leader were to die unexpectedly and enemies came to attack, the clan elders could use other special methods to activate these talismans and magical artifacts to help the family through a difficult crisis.
Thus, under the current circumstances, the talismans and magical artifacts could be temporarily disregarded.
Consequently, aside from diligently cultivating, the only thing Fang Yun could focus on was taking good care of those two plots of spiritual farmland.
Unfortunately, the spiritual rice he painstakingly planted in those two plots suffered from a pest infestation.
Green beetles, which appeared from nowhere, devoured the nearly ripe spiritual rice until there was nothing left.
For Fang Yun, who had just broken through to the first layer of Qi Refining and whose foundation was still unstable, this was undoubtedly an extremely heavy blow.
These spiritual rice were his only cultivation resource, apart from the spiritual energy contained in the spring.
As for the dozen spirit stones, on one hand, they were consumable items and could not serve as a long-term cultivation resource.
On the other hand, they were the family's assets passed down over hundreds of years.
When the clan elders handed them over to Fang Yun, they specifically instructed him not to use them for cultivation.
This was because they were far too precious; in the future, he would need these spirit stones to purchase items!
Now that the spiritual rice had been completely devoured by the green beetles, it meant that his cultivation path had suffered a serious blow.
Thus, just after breaking through and before he could stabilize his realm, Fang Yun suddenly fell into a state of madness.
Perhaps it was the intertwined fate that guided him, causing Ling Yun from Earth to replace Fang Yun in this world and become the lowest-level cultivator here.
Fang Yun's mind was filled with the past experiences of the original owner, leaving him with complex emotions.
On one hand, he should feel happy to have crossed over from being an ordinary student on Earth to becoming a cultivator.
On the other hand, the assets left behind by the original owner were pitifully few, while the troubles were numerous.
Putting aside other matters, the injury to his body was enough to leave Fang Yun feeling overwhelmed.
Only Fang Yun's soul had crossed over; it had not helped with the injuries caused by the original owner's madness.
Although he wouldn't lose his life like the original owner due to madness, it wouldn't be so simple to repair the meridians damaged from it.