MC starts out as an orphan that was picked up by a sect, living on the magic farmlands of said small sect, farming magic rice to sell and make money. His dream, is to use that money to buy more magic farming spells to become an official ranked member of the guild of magic farmers (requires basic competency level with farming magics of all 5 elements; sect only gives you 1 spell for free and the rest you need to buy) and become stinking filthy rich. Most people cultivate to cultivate or to chase the dao, but his dream is to be the richest man around. Events eventually conspire to make him cultivate properly instead of just farming spells... Although he does remain firmly in the production side of things (farming, pill making, formations). Also rob and rip off people. There is a long overarching plot about the mystery of his family, world building, etc. The story is fairly humorous and amusing. It is one of the best stories on the site, especially for the first few hundreds chapters. Although at around ch 500ish it becomes too much combat and author is rather meh at that. Although you still have moments of humor they are more rare now. I still highly recommend you read it. @JackStone I added in this bit of spoiler since I just realized you were asking for it Spoiler The main plot though revolves around several things 0. Making money 1. his family ancestry. He starts out having an immobile face incapable of expressions and no memories, finding out that someone of at least jindan level has sealed his memories and changed his face 2. there is a war between human and magical beasts/plants that assumed human form. Mostly because cultivators are themselves valuable resources and its more polite to war on another race than to harvest members of your own race. 3. MC gets two ancient elders from thee enemy faction in his head, as they are grievously injured and need to hide, so they become parasites in his mindscape to do both. Although eventually he wins them over and gets some ancient grandpas to teach him. 4. major powers are huge assholes and enemies of the MC. so MC ends up building his own power and runs around as a warlord
uwah, the other gong is alive and kicking! great! wanna see him fight back again. lol, ma fan is being underestimated again, lol.
oh, it's been awhile, pu! now, where is wei? o.o lol, backstabbing each other! so zuo mo became sun tribe totem warrior? (imitation ver?)
lol, sweep without any speck of dust, lol, either enemy's life or things, lol, dang these op monsters, freaks, ghosts, lol, one drains, one becomes manual labor, lol
lol, too bad, it didn't change to be the cooking chapter like a certain famous manga, lol even black soldier feel fear in this chapter, lol, shen monster is amazing, lol
yep, lol, too bad, he didn't die cuz of overeating here, lol, isn't that his dream? though it will be hilarious if his stomach goes round like lil pagoda, lol
oh, no 1 target bird level is revealed, so yao council elders are the reason behind her misfortune, lol, wonder if she turns to zuo's side o.o
seems about par for the course by now. ZM keeps on recruiting the super geniuses that various factions are oppressing
the enemy of our enemy is friend, yep, lol, though I doubt her ability since her resources since her clan members are taken by those elders.
A lot of times those factions are not even his enemies, they are just oppressing their own geniuses due to both stupidity and nepotism
Or in the case of Wu Kong Sword (Formation) Sect, it's poverty, lack of financial talent, puritanical-orthodox education mind-set and trying to cover up for Ge so he does not stand out too much and attract the attention of his enemies (what can 4 poor jindan do against rich yuanying & above?).
Bie Han development was very well done. Him being more silent does gave him more of that serial arsonist vibe. ZM definitely using the tactic, "don't question the employed & don't employ the questionable" to great effect.
bie han and youqin guy are so cool... zuo mo and gongsun cha are quite good at noticing bie han's improvement, good senior and boss, no wonder if he wants to do his best now...
.-. kun lun is still arrogant and ignorant, what a perfect titan. or may be cannon fodder or stepping stone? wew, that famous general came to zuo mo quicker than I thought o.o