The Evergreen Sword of Mount Hua — Volume I: Roots Beneath Mount Hua

The Evergreen Sword of Mount Hua

Volume I — Roots Beneath Mount Hua

What if the greatest advantage in the martial world wasn’t a legendary sword manual—but the ability to make anything green grow?

Chen Mo was an ordinary modern man.

Then he died.

When he opens his eyes again, he finds himself in the body of a fourteen-year-old orphan gathering medicinal herbs beneath the towering peaks of Mount Hua.

The names around him are disturbingly familiar.

Yue Buqun.

Ning Zhongze.

Yue Lingshan.

Linghu Chong.

The Five Mountains Sword Schools.

Chen Mo realizes he has entered a jianghu whose future he already knows—at least in broad strokes.

Unfortunately, knowing the future does not make him powerful.

He has no internal energy.

No martial inheritance.

No wealthy clan.

No influential master.

What he does possess is something potentially even more dangerous.

Chen Mo can accelerate the natural growth of plants without reducing their quality or medicinal properties.

A young medicinal herb can mature in moments.

A ginseng root can accumulate decades of growth.

Rare plants can be propagated from seeds and cuttings.

Food can be cultivated faster.

Medicinal gardens can become strategic resources.

But Chen Mo quickly understands the terrifying consequence of his gift.

If the jianghu discovers what he can do, powerful sects will not simply ask him to grow herbs.

They will try to own him.

So Chen Mo chooses patience.

He begins as an ordinary herb gatherer.

He studies medicine.

Builds hidden gardens.

Improves the food and medicinal resources of Huashan.

Learns swordsmanship step by step.

And slowly becomes entangled with the people whose futures he once knew only as a story.

Among them is the carefree and reckless Linghu Chong, who becomes something closer to a brother than Chen Mo ever expected.

There is also Yue Buqun—the respected Gentleman Sword whom Chen Mo knows may one day walk a far darker road.

But the longer Chen Mo lives beside these people, the more uncomfortable one truth becomes:

Knowing someone’s future is not the same as understanding them.

And every change Chen Mo makes creates consequences of its own.

A stronger Huashan attracts greater attention.

Rare medicines create rumors.

Merchants seek monopolies.

Songshan begins watching.

Poison enters the game.

Trade routes become battlefields.

And the quiet herb gatherer gradually discovers that power in the jianghu does not exist only in swords.

It exists in food.

Medicine.

Supply lines.

Trust.

Information.

And the ability to survive long enough for one’s roots to grow deep.

As Chen Mo’s martial philosophy develops, the principles of plants begin influencing his sword:

Roots before branches.
Foundation before strength.
Adapt before breaking.
Wait until the moment to bear fruit.

Thus begins the path toward the Evergreen Sword.

Inside Volume I

Follow Chen Mo through his first major stage in the martial world as he:

• discovers and experiments with his extraordinary plant-growth ability;
• establishes secret medicinal gardens around Mount Hua;
• encounters Linghu Chong and gradually forms a brother-like friendship with him;
• becomes involved with Yue Buqun, Ning Zhongze, Yue Lingshan, Lu Dayou, and the Huashan disciples;
• studies traditional medicine, internal energy, swordsmanship, and poison;
• introduces agricultural and logistical improvements to Huashan;
• cultivates increasingly valuable medicinal herbs;
• faces merchants and martial factions seeking control over Huashan’s resources;
• develops the earliest principles of Evergreen Sword Art;
• helps transform Huashan from a vulnerable sect into a more resilient organization;
• draws the attention of Songshan;
• and finally encounters a mysterious old swordsman hidden among the peaks of Mount Hua.

That encounter may change Chen Mo’s understanding of the sword forever.

Perfect For Readers Who Enjoy

Wuxia adventures, martial-arts progression, transmigration stories, intelligent protagonists, kingdom-building elements, sect development, cultivation resources, medicine and herbalism, strategic protagonists, alternate-universe stories, slow-burn power growth, and protagonists who win through preparation as often as through combat.