After Five Thousand Years of Laying Low, I Realized I’d Already Reached the Top

“Ding! You have a new task order. Please take care of it promptly!” “Ding! Congratulations on helping Old Wang next door find a partner! Reward: one secluded courtyard!” “Ding! Congratulations on embracing the spirit of helping others and giving a street beggar enough to eat! Reward: one kitchen knife!” “Ding! Congratulations on drawing your blade to help the wronged and preventing a cat-and-dog battle! Reward: one poultry pen!” ...After scraping by for five thousand years, he’s received enough task rewards to make him sick. It’s a sad story: everything he gets is junk, nothing but junk. Hey, System, could you please give me something actually useful for once? Only much later does he find out that everything the System gives you really is top quality. As it turns out... all the worthless junk he tossed away was actually the kind of heaven-defying treasure that made countless powerful experts green with envy. Even a broken chopstick could pierce the heavens. Looking back, he’d reached the peak from the moment he began. He just hadn’t realized it... He’d wasted five thousand years!