At Last, the Cautious One Becomes a Venerable

The cultivation world is rife with bloodshed, and gifted prodigies fall like fish swimming upstream. But Shen Gou has carved the word “cautious” into his very bones. He takes no sides, shows no bravado, and keeps a low profile, quietly cultivating his spiritual fields and earning a reputation throughout the sect as a good-for-nothing. While others fight over secret realms and magical treasures, he buries himself in farming, quietly building up his spiritual power by drawing talent from all things. While others flaunt their cultivation and throw their weight around, he keeps his trump cards hidden and trains basic techniques to their absolute peak. While others laugh that he’ll spend his whole life trapped at the bottom, he treats their words like wind, even keeping his coughs quiet to avoid the slightest trouble. From a frail menial servant in the Houtian Realm of the Human World, to a farmer living in seclusion across the Spirit, Immortal, and Divine Realms, and finally to the Hongmeng Supreme of the Chaos Realm, he has avoided countless conflicts and outlasted one formidable foe after another through ages of tribulations. Until one day, when the powerhouses of the Three Realms fight so fiercely over a supreme treasure that they wreck his field ridges. At last, the seemingly humble farmer slowly rises to his feet, unleashing the ultimate pressure he has suppressed for hundreds of millions of years. “What are you making all that noise for? You’re keeping me from harvesting my rice.” Only then does everyone realize: taking the path of caution to its very limit is itself a form of invincibility. True powerhouses have no need to show off. They simply bide their time in obscurity, and when the world is left astounded, they still tend to their own little patch of hearth and home.