The Sect's Good-for-Nothing Becomes the Beloved of the Seventies: One Eccentric Family

[Getting rich in the 1970s + cultivation in a bygone era + family and neighborhood life + light mysticism + an eccentric family + doted-on heroine + military marriage (slow burn)]

Shen Qingyuan, a good-for-nothing in the cultivation world, is struck by tribulation lightning and sent to a factory housing compound in the 1970s as an “outsider”!

The moment she opens her eyes, she catches her third brother sneaking into her pocket. Her foolish fourth brother offers her half a hard, dry steamed bun, while she hears her mother chasing someone for three miles over five cents, cursing all the while.

The Shen family is dirt poor, and every one of them is a weirdo!

No matter where they go, nobody likes them.

Just as Shen Qingyuan is about to give up, she catches a strong whiff of spiritual energy.

There's even more of it here than in the cultivation world!

Even better, her useless metal spirit root has become a “treasure-hunting radar”!

She digs gold out of a chair leg at the scrap yard, finds gold dust in an old flowerpot that looks just like dirt, and can make vegetables ripen in five minutes by absorbing gold!

With a cleansing spell, her clothes look brand-new in an instant. One peace talisman, and a bullet fired by a spy narrowly misses her third brother.

Her “eccentric” family genuinely cares for her too:

Her stingy mother saves up to send her to school, her second brother goes to the men's bathhouse to wash her clothes, and her third brother scours the black market to find things for her.

Shen Qingyuan, who has never known the warmth of family, feels her heart soften.

She'll protect this family!

From then on, the Shen family's fortunes change dramatically. While everyone else eats plain steamed buns, they have meat at every meal. While others wear patched clothes, theirs are bright and beautiful. While others put up with being bullied, she has magic to back them up and gives anyone who picks a fight with them a piece of her mind! Her “treasure-hunting” skill makes them a fortune.

She protects her short-lived eldest sister, helps her eldest brother keep his worker-peasant-soldier university recommendation, and sets her third brother on the right path.

The Shen family, once looked down on by everyone, becomes the most envied family in the housing compound!

And what about the tragic ending in the “storybook” she transmigrated into?