[Misunderstandings and overinterpretation + lighthearted + mastermind behind the scenes + farming + no female lead]
I transmigrated into a dead tree that can’t move. All I want is to quietly photosynthesize.
But my followers are too good at reading into things, and they’ve put me on a pedestal as a god.
Me: Stop worshipping me! If you keep it up, I really might become... invincible!
From the start, I was dealt hellish difficulty. I’m Lin Mo, a workaholic agricultural student of the modern age, and after working myself to death, I somehow became a hundred-meter-tall dead tree.
I can’t move or speak. My only skill is dropping leaves.
Then some refugees, starving to death beneath my branches, picked up the dead leaves I’d “accidentally” dropped and cried, “Grandpa Tree has answered our prayers!”
[Ding! The Strange Tree Deity System has activated. Detected recognition of ‘divine tree.’ Compatibility check in progress...]
From then on, every survival instinct of mine was interpreted as a miracle.
I secrete resin to heal wounds → “The divine tree has bestowed a lifesaving holy medicine!”
I scare off attacking wolves → “The divine tree displays its might, driving away evil spirits!”
I boost the harvest in the spirit fields → “The divine tree shows mercy and blesses the land!”
...I’m really just trying to stay alive!
Looking at the fervent believers kneeling all around me and the faith points skyrocketing in my System, I fell into thought.
If I can’t explain it, then why not... just go along with it?
When the immortal sects denounce me as an “evil dead tree,” I make life bloom from dead branches, and the Dao’s aura forms naturally around me.
When demonic cultivators laugh at me for “relying on ants,” the united masses behind me turn their will into a sword and cut down a Nascent Soul cultivator.
When the netherworld whispers, tempting me to return to my true nature, I stand between withering and flourishing, facing everyone who believes in me, loves me, and gives me strength:
“Who says a god has to live in the heavens?”
It's pretty good, don't stop updating it ૮₍♡>𖥦<₎ა