[Everyday comedy + unconventional cultivation fantasy + trope subversion]
“Master, this is bad! The six demonic sects are attacking! They say they'll slaughter everyone in the mortal world!”
Chu Chen doesn't even lift an eyelid from his rocking chair. “What's there to panic about? Send Old Wang the butcher from the village entrance.”
“But Old Wang is just a mortal!”
The next moment, the butcher swings his cleaver. A surge of earthly red dust rises, and one strike shatters the demonic ancestor's Nascent Soul avatar.
The powerful cultivators stare in disbelief. “You call that a mortal?”
Chu Chen, the young sect master of the Tai Xuan Sect, suffers a calamity, loses all his cultivation, and ends up in a small mortal town.
To earn enough to eat, he has no choice but to disguise the supreme truths of the cultivation world as ordinary skills and teach them to the villagers.
He teaches a woodcutter the Ox-Cleaving Blade Technique just to make chopping wood easier. The woodcutter ends up splitting the heavens with an axe and becomes the founding ancestor of an entire sect.
He teaches a young private-school student to recite the Dao De Jing just so he can learn to read. The child ends up speaking laws into reality and becomes a Confucian sage.
The wild vegetables he casually plants grow into immortal elixirs; the brick he uses to prop up a wobbly table becomes the object of a fierce bidding war among the sacred grounds.
Years later, when the mighty cultivators of the immortal realm descend to seize the mortal world's fortune, they are barely into Qinghe Town before the gatekeeper's big yellow dog slaps them to the ground and beats them to a pulp.
Chu Chen looks innocent. “Don't look at me. I lost all my magic. I'm really not some peerless expert.”
Also known as: “I Lost All My Magic, Yet I'm Still the Strongest in the Mortal World,” “Life Is Tough, So the Immortal Master Performs for a Living,” and “You Were Told to Flee for Your Life, So Why Did You Turn the Mortal World into an Immortal Realm?”
This book is quite interesting. The protagonist's life begins in chaos, but he also encounters kind people at the start. He has a protagonist's halo, and the way the book describes the path to immortality is unique; it's not the kind of book that simply gives you a fortuitous encounter. It feels like searching for flowers in the fog—the more you search, the more captivating it becomes.