Before They Discover I'm a Genius, I'll Pretend to Be a Good-for-Nothing

Lu Qinghe, with a five-element mixed spiritual root, at the second level of Qi Refining, and certified by the town as a good-for-nothing.

For twelve years, he pretended to be a coward in Jianhu Town, until the townsfolk went out of their way to avoid him and even he almost believed his act.

Until one night, the Blood Alliance stormed the pottery kiln in the eastern suburbs and forced the old woman who sold candied hawthorns and the young son of a widow onto a blood-sacrifice altar.

He looked up. With that single glance, the whole of Jianhu Town seemed to feel the pressure shift.