[Playing it safe + not invincible + goofy comedy + sect life + misunderstandings + ensemble cast and beloved protagonist]
The pacing is slow at first, but the story gets better and better. You can even start reading from later on and treat the early chapters as a warm-up.
Shen Wunian transmigrates to the cultivation world and joins a sect with a truly peculiar style.
The Pill Peak brews laxatives, the Artifact Peak makes truncheons, and everyone in the sect is a sneaky schemer. Their lifelong goal is to engrave the word “caution” into their DNA.
Suffering from terminal paranoia, he never leaves home without seven layers of armor under his clothes and keeps his cultivation level disguised as the third level of Qi Refining. He is a model disciple of his sect.
When his senior sister confesses her obsessive love for him, he immediately lays down a nine-layer killing formation. “You audacious demoness! You want to drain my cultivation and ruin my foundations!”
When the Holy Son provokes him, he assumes a mighty expert must be lying in wait and promptly calls for backup.
The next second, every schemer in the sect drops from the sky. They poison, break defenses, loot, and ransack the place in one seamless operation. They even wipe the Holy Son’s sect off the map, so professionally that even the demonic path is impressed.
Years later, Shen Wunian, the “Qi Refining Reaper” who terrifies the cultivation world, looks utterly bewildered as he surveys the sect he personally shaped into a shadowy power, along with the great figures on their knees begging for his guidance.
“I’m really not some reclusive master. I just want to stay alive, and while I’m at it… whose home should we ransack today?”
Shen Wunian also discovers that the affairs of the Shen family in this life are far more complicated than he ever imagined.
All the people in the sect are specialized in confiscating houses. Generally speaking, the first part is pretty good. The first few chapters are all about confiscating houses and confiscating houses. The heroine's characterization is relatively weak. I hope there will be more plots in the future.