Cultivation Is Not as Good as Making Money

Liu Xiaoman, a 996 corporate slave in her past life, dies from overwork and transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder menial with a five-element trash spiritual root. No cheat codes, no system, no mysterious old grandpa. Just a rusty woodcutter's axe, a set of coarse cloth short clothes, and a job posting that says "room and board included, monthly wage three spirit stones." While others fly on swords, she huffs and puffs carrying water. While others refine pills and meditate, she sweats buckets chopping wood. While others split mountains with a single sword strike at the sect tournament, she's at the back of the crowd calculating how much that mountain is worth in stone materials. Until one day, she digs up a spirit vein beneath the vegetable patch on the back mountain. And another day, Demon Venerable Qin Yuan descends from the sky, clutching a bag of spirit stones and insisting on buying her mountain. Liu Xiaoman: Sure, but you'll have to pay extra. Qin Yuan: ... From then on, the menial quarters of Qingyun Sect gained a strange new neighbor. Every day the Demon Venerable squats beside her vegetable patch, watching her water and fertilize, watching her do "radio calisthenics," watching her grow spirit vegetables to the quality of supreme-grade spirit herbs. Disciples gradually notice that the spiritual energy behind the menial quarters is getting denser and denser. Demonic beasts from the spirit beast garden refuse to leave when they pass by that vegetable patch. Even the sect master's spirit plants start stretching their roots toward it. But Liu Xiaoman only cares about one thing— Did this month's spirit stones arrive? Is the vegetable patch's harvest enough to pay rent? Can she raise the Demon Venerable's rent a bit? What cultivation and seeking the Dao, what immortality and eternal youth—none of it beats making money. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Cultivation Is Not as Good as Making Money — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠