Grass Hero

Grass Hero is a martial-arts and cultivation web novel by Cheng Gang, first serialized and completed on Qidian, running about 720,000 characters; a traditional Chinese edition was published in volumes by Taiwan's Mantianxing Culture. The protagonist, Mu Qingshan, is a simple-hearted boy from a mountain village, abandoned by his parents at birth and raised by an old cowherd. The arrival of an expedition team disrupts his life among the mountains and forests, and a tense, eerie journey through the jungle awakens in him an unexpected power connected to plants, letting him sense, communicate with, and eventually control the force of vegetation. The setting then shifts from deep mountains to city and campus: he meets roommates of very different temperaments in a university dormitory, gets drawn into campus club and underworld disputes, first shows his skills in a basketball showdown, and gains brotherhood and a pure, innocent romance. Once he enters society, his goals gradually clarify from confusion; he must face the open and hidden strife of wealthy families, sniper attacks, and framed misunderstandings, and he keeps confirming his stance in the struggle between good and evil, maturing step by step from an ignorant youth. The book is divided into four parts, "Jungle Chronicles," "Campus Road," "City Journey," and "Demon Path," linking the mountain wilds, campus ensemble, urban underworld, and otherworldly demons into a single coming-of-age arc. This entry corresponds to Grass Hero Volume 2, published by Mantianxing Culture, one of the volume editions.