[Deduction + family clan + ensemble cast + clan fortune + farming + no saintly do-gooders + fast-paced]
No more sect tournaments, no more beating the young only for the elders to come after you. He won't wipe out a clan unless they truly deserve it, won't recklessly court death, and keeps his wits about him. There will be no ascension to a new world just to recycle the same old story. He'll farm in one world from beginning to end, advancing from mortal to immortal to god.
Postnatal prodigies, artificial spiritual roots, and, later on, artificial bloodlines.
With a little golden finger that records deductions, something like an AI, Shen Qingyun begins poring over all kinds of cultivation manuals and ancient texts. He creates his own cultivation arts and martial techniques, so he never has to go grave-robbing again.
