Xuanhuan: The Cautious and Brave Sect Patriarch

"Master, what exactly is cultivation?"

"All living beings have their own fate. Cultivation means defying heaven, contending with the heavens for fortune, and changing one's destiny."

"Fighting the heavens? Isn't that dangerous?"

"That's why you must study hard and train diligently, day and night without pause. With your talent, in a few decades you'll surely become a god and survive the tribulation. Once you cross that threshold, you'll become an immortal, break free of the constraints of this world, and roam the cosmos!"

"But surviving the tribulation means getting struck by lightning. Ninety-nine out of a hundred are reduced to ashes."

"That's right. Tribulations are perilous, which is why immortals have been few and far between in the forty thousand years of cultivation."

"Then I'll take my time. As long as I live long enough to outlast the heavens, I won't have to get struck by lightning!"

And so ten, twenty, then fifty years passed. The peerless genius of the cultivation world carefully hid away inside his sect, refusing to advance his cultivation or incur karmic ties. No matter how chaotic things got outside, he simply kept a low profile and stockpiled magical treasures and...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.