Max Level from the Start, Forced to Play the Rookie

Starting out at max level is a perk; being forced to play dumb is just life. Welcome to a cultivation world where everyone is an award-winning actor. [Invincible lead + hilarious subversion of tropes + delusions and wild speculation + mastermind behind the scenes] Lin Yi transmigrates to the cultivation world and awakens at the pinnacle. The source of the Heavenly Dao lies within him; with a snap of his fingers, he could destroy all the gods and Buddhas across the heavens, and his cultivation has no limit. But the Heavenly Dao warns him: reveal your true strength, and the annihilation protocol for all the heavens will be activated! So, in the Qingyun Sect, which he could blow away with a single yawn, Lin Yi begins the grueling daily act of pretending to be a rookie in the Qi Refining stage: Test his spiritual roots? One touch, and the spirit stone explodes in a shower of fireworks. Water and fertilize the plants? Ordinary spirit herbs instantly become ten-thousand-year-old sacred medicines. Demons attack? The Moonshadow Wolf King leads its entire pack in line, bowing and begging to be enlightened. The sect tournament? He spends the whole time spacing out and sneezing, while his opponents all reach enlightenment and withdraw. The whole sect can tell there’s something wrong with this junior brother! The sect leader calls an emergency meeting in the middle of the night: “Play along with him! If he wants to pretend, we’ll pretend with him!” The elders nod in perfect agreement: “Right, right. The spirit stone was old and faulty, the herbs were just lucky, and the wolves came to repay a kindness…” Only junior sister Su Qing’er blinks her big eyes and says, “Senior Brother Lin, it must be exhausting pretending. Want me to help you cover it up?” Lin Yi is on the verge of tears. “I’m really not pretending! I’m just an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator!” Lin Yi lets out a long sigh at the heavens. “I just want to keep my head down and live in peace. Why is the whole world playing along with me?!”