Village Official Cultivates Immortality

Village Official Cultivates Immortality is a modern cultivation web novel by Li Xianyu, first published on Zongheng Chinese and completed at about one million characters. The protagonist, Li Dachuan, is a recent college graduate assigned to the remote Qingmu Village as a village official: after social insurance deductions his salary leaves little, his daily work is mediating disputes in the fields and reading newspapers to villagers through a loudspeaker, and his days are trivial and poor. By chance he meets the cultivator Quan You Zhenren in the deep mountains and old forests, receives a secret manual titled Step by Step to Immortality and an Enlightenment Pill, and from then on enters the gate of cultivation. Thereafter he handles village chores by day, leads villagers in planting spirit-spring rice and developing businesses, and at night goes into the mountains to breathe and practice, studying talismans, artifact refinement, the subtle-discernment eye, spirit pets, and other arts, his cultivation advancing from initial foundation-building all the way to the realm of spirit-fire golden core. Meanwhile, the remote mountain village is not peaceful: village officials fight openly and secretly, outside thugs and mysterious organizations repeatedly come to the door, and threads such as the shadow special agents, transnational missions, and ancient legacies appear one after another, drawing the protagonist into situations far more complicated than village disputes. In a light, humorous tone, the book places the trivial intimacy of grassroots village affairs alongside the hot-blooded fantasy of cultivation combat, telling the story of a young man from the bottom rungs maneuvering between the mortal world and the immortal path and step by step taking on responsibility.