Cultivation in the City Is Too Much of a Grind, So I’ll Go Fool the Anime Crowd

[Urban] [Involution] [Cultivation] [Anime Crossover] [Honghuang]

Tang Xia transmigrates to the Cultivation Realm, only to find that his spiritual root purity is a mere 3%!

He thought he’d be stuck with a wage-slave start, but from the start he gets a Haotian Mirror and a wildly unconventional chat group!

The chat group’s true form turns out to be the supreme divine artifact from the Investiture of the Gods calamity: the Investiture of the Gods!

And every member of the group has their own extraordinary skills.

Things soon get increasingly absurd:

Tang Xia discovers that the faith offered up by the group’s overworked members, as well as the fortune that comes with sacrificing a fated heroine, can be used to boost his cultivation through the Haotian Mirror!

The catch is that this lousy mirror thinks the spiritual energy in this world is too impure, so it forcibly suppresses his cultivation, claiming it’s “tempering a flawless Dao foundation and cultivating the Eight-Nine Arcane Art”!

So Tang Xia encourages the group members to outdo one another at work:

“Keep it up! I, the Great Emperor, bestow upon you the True Scripture of the Nine Heavens’ Spirit Command!” (A modified version of the school’s basic Qi-guiding technique.)

Meanwhile, he sneers at the scoundrels monopolizing spiritual veins, driving up housing prices, and charging people to breathe in the Cultivation Realm:

“Immortal Hengda, Wanda Immortal Domain, Country Garden Immortal Park?”

“Just you wait! Sooner or later, I’ll work you all to death!”

[Hilarious subversion of tropes + conning the myriad worlds + class upheaval, all about hustling and swindling your way to immortality!]