I Won Over the Three Realms by Kowtowing

【Plot-focused | Wild premise | Road trip | Slow burn | Not a wish-fulfillment story | Unconventional cultivation】 【No CP | Bonds | Foreshadowing-heavy | Journey through the Six Realms | Xianxia】 As my last breath of yang energy drifted out through the crown of my head, I heard a voice say, “Dead again.” After transmigrating to a cultivation world, the System said, “Just kowtow and you’ll get stronger!” This useless thing does nothing but annoy me. Whenever anything happens, all it can do is shout in my head, “Great kowtow! Keep going!” At first, I thought this was just an absurd struggle to survive in another world. But the farther I went, kowtowing all the while, the stranger things became. One kowtow shattered the Dao heart of a once-in-a-generation genius. A second kowtow drove off an ancient ferocious beast that had been hurting itself. A third kowtow summoned all the gods, who cried out that they couldn’t take it anymore. … People began looking at me differently, as if I were someone who should never have existed. As if they were afraid that if I kowtowed one more time, I would open a door that should never be opened. I don’t know what lies beyond that door, and there’s always a voice saying something like, “You’ll regret this.” But, folks, since we’re already here…