I Rescued a Turtle and Became the Sect's Landlord

Fan Qisheng was the joke of Guanhe Academy, a lowly spiritual gardener who wasted his meager resources feeding stray beasts and nursing broken spirit-roots. When the academy's elite disciples brutally tortured a one-eyed mud turtle for sport, Qisheng stepped in, trading his only chance at inner-court promotion to buy the dying creature's life. They laughed, calling him a bleeding heart destined for the dirt. But the turtle was Ao Shen, the primordial Earth-Vein Sovereign upon whose back the entire academy was built millennia ago. To repay Qisheng's kindness, Ao Shen doesn't just grant him immense spiritual power - he makes Qisheng the legal owner of the mountain's spiritual leylines. Suddenly, the very air the arrogant disciples breathe and the Qi they cultivate belong to Qisheng. Armed with a new Karmic Ledger system, Qisheng begins charging rent, throttling the spiritual energy of his abusers, and cultivating a paradise for the marginalized. With the elite disciples facing spiritual eviction and an ancient calamity awakening in the depths, will they swallow their pride and pay their dues, or will Qisheng have to foreclose on the entire academy?