After failing the civil service exam, Zhao Ji was still reeling when she opened her eyes again and transmigrated.
Her good fortune was that she had stumbled into the chance to cultivate.
Her bad fortune was that there was no golden finger, no kindly old man in a System.
All she had was a world shrouded in darkness.
Gambling addicts who sold their wives, officials who devoured people, villagers who watched helplessly but dared not step in.
It wasn't that she had no chance to leave. The immortal said, "Cultivation is for the sake of eternal life. You have extraordinary talent. Come with me to the cultivation world, and your future will be limitless."
She looked at the disasters stretching across the land and the refugees filling the city, then gently shook her head.
From an unregistered orphan girl, to a county magistrate, to the ruler of an entire region.
She exhausted her spiritual power to save people, slew the bandit chief with a single sword strike, and outmaneuvered old foxes in official circles.
She wasn't born to be a "strong female lead." She was an ordinary person from another world. She was afraid, but she never stopped moving forward.
Eventually, she went to the cultivation world and became the youngest sect master of Xuanqing Sect, an Immortal Venerable at the Tribulation Transcendence stage, and someone countless cultivators looked up to.
What she cultivated was the immortal path, and yet it was not. It was a heart of flesh and blood, grown amid the mortal world.
Farming and infrastructure building + slow burn + traditional cultivation + genius protagonist + strong female lead