Exiled to the deadly Black Pine Ridge, Lu Ye faces desperate circumstances: displaced refugees are running out of food, wild boars are destroying their fields, and greedy merchants in town are exploiting them with unfair prices. Relying on his wilderness survival skills, he sets traps to hunt beasts, builds protective trenches against wild animals, and reopens an old hunting trail to establish a trade route. He introduces a fair rule of distributing food according to each person's contributions and leads the refugees to repel waves of beasts and break free from the merchants' control. He transforms the desolate mountains everyone fears into a prosperous land where everyone has plenty of food and clothing.