Bound to the Eternal Runner-Up Trait, I Cultivate by Bluffing

People are the spirits of heaven and earth; Gu are their essence.

Jing Wen has just three days before he's expelled.

Every year, Qing Teng City's No. 3 Middle School expels a batch of ordinary students who can't draw qi into their bodies. He's one of them. Unless he breaks through to the first level of Qi Refining in the next three days, he'll have no choice but to go tighten screws on an assembly line.

Then he discovers the "Perennial Runner-Up" entry in his sea of consciousness. Whenever he enters any ranked competition, he is guaranteed to come in second.

Using this ability at a stone-gambling plant, he obtains a steady stream of legendary Gu.

But there's a problem: the world is blanketed in surveillance by the Heavenly Net.

The Enforcement Bureau records everyone's cultivation fluctuations and sources of income.

A poor student who suddenly becomes rich will attract attention.

So Jing Wen needs a persona.

One that will make everyone believe he's "just lucky."

He plays the obedient student, the poor student, the kept man.

He's a good-for-nothing at cultivation, yet he presents himself as an unrivaled cultivation prodigy, all to build his credibility and launch his cultivation loans to raise a fortune.

At every stage, he creates a different persona and plays a different role.

When his second aunt tells him to work on an assembly line tightening screws, he nods and agrees.

When the villains mock him, he stays silent.

Everyone laughs at him for being a coward. No one notices that he is using that cowardly act as cover, setting a much bigger plan in motion right under their noses.

Jing Wen isn't lucky.

He's planned every step.